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Table 2 Information about physical anthropology textbooks included in the sample

From: Evolution and University-level Anthropology Textbooks: The “Missing Link”?

ID

Author(s)

Title

Publisher

Year

Glossary

Summary

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In-text

19

Campbell, Loy, and Cruz-Uribe

Humankind Emerging

Pearson

2006

Cumulative changes in the average characteristics of a population generally thought to occur over many generations

 

Cumulative changes in the average characteristics of a population generally thought to occur over many generations

 

20

Cela-Conde and Ayala

Human Evolution: Trails from the Past

Oxford University Press

2007

    

21

Crabtree and Campana

Archaeology and Prehistory

McGraw Hill

2001

    

22

DeCorse

The Record of the Past: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

Prentice Hall

2000

Process of change within the genetic makeup of a species over time

  

Process of change in a species over time

23

Feder

The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory

McGraw Hill

2007

The systematic change through time of biological organisms or human cultural systems

  

The focus of Darwin’s work and the organizing theme of this book; biological evolution simply implies a process of systematic change through time

24

Kottak

Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

McGraw Hill

2006

Belief that species arose from others through a long gradual process of transformation or descent with modification

Belief that species arose from others through a long gradual process of transformation or descent with modification

  

25

Lewis, Jurmain, and Kilgore

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

Thompson Wadsworth

2007

A change in the genetic structure of a population from one generation to the next; the term is also frequently used to refer to the appearance of a new species

 

A change in frequency of alleles from one generation to the next

The gradual unfolding of new varieties of life from previous forms over long periods of time

26

Park

Biological Anthropology

McGraw Hill

2008

Change through time, usually with reference to biological species, but may also refer to changes within cultural systems

 

Change through time; here, with reference to biological species

Species of living things change over time, and under the right circumstances, this change can produce new species of living organisms from existing ones

27

Price and Feinman

Images of the Past

McGraw Hill

2008

The process of change over time resulting from shifting conditions of the physical and cultural environment, involving mechanisms of mutation and natural selection; human biology and culture evolved during the late Miocene, Pliocene,Pleistocene, and Holocene

 

The process of change over time resulting from shifting conditions of the physical and cultural environment, involving mechanisms of mutation and natural selection; human biology and culture evolved during the late Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene

 

28

Relethford

The Human Species:An Introduction to Biological Anthropology

McGraw Hill

2005

The transformation of species of organic life over long periods of time

 

Change in populations of organisms from one generation to the next

Change in living organisms over time

29

Rice and Moloney

Biological Anthropology and Prehistory: Exploring Our Human Ancestry

Pearson Prentice Hall

2005

Transformation of species of organic life over long periods of time

Biological change through time

 

Biological change through time

30

Stanford, Allen, and Antón

Exploring Biological Anthropology

Prentice Hall: Pearson

2008

A change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in a population over multiple generations

 

A change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in a population over multiple generations

Slow and inefficient, but over many generations, it can mold animals and plants into a bewildering variety of forms

31

Stein and Rowe

Physical Anthropology

McGraw Hill

2006

Change in the frequencies of alleles within a gene pool of a population over time

 

Change in the frequencies of alleles within a gene pool of a population over time

A significant change in the gene pool of a population