Exploring Biological Anthropology: The Essentials (4th Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Craig Stanford

Dr. Craig Stanford is a Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at USC. He has researched extensively on wild great apes, monkeys, and reptiles. His work has often focused on the ecological relationships among the primate species sharing a tropical forest ecosystem. He has conducted field studies in East Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America.

The author or co-author of over 15 books and more than 130 scholarly articles, he also holds a research appointment in vertebrate biology at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Dr. Stanford has also been given every major teaching and research award offered at USC Dornsife College and continues to teach a large lecture course on human origins each year.

John S. Allen

Dr. John Allen is a research scientist and a neuroanthropologist at the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington. For the past twenty years, his research has focused on human structural brain anatomy and the evolution of the brain. Before that, he conducted medical and cognitive anthropology fieldwork in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Palau.

Susan C. Anton

Dr. Susan Antón is a Professor and Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Faculty Development at NYU. She got her Ph.D. in 1994 and her M.A. in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Her areas of research include skeletal biology; the evolution of the genus Homo; physical anthropology; dispersal; evolutionary morphology; human osteology and anatomy; growth, development, and life history patterns.