ABSTRACT

Why are humans so different from each other and what makes the human species so different from all other living organisms? This introductory book provides a concise and accessible account of human diversity, of its causes and the ways in which anthropologists go about trying to make sense of it. Carles Salazar offers students a thoroughly integrated view by bringing together biological and sociocultural anthropology and including perspectives from evolutionary biology and psychology.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|31 pages

Being human

chapter 2|27 pages

A new form of knowledge

chapter 3|30 pages

Theories of difference

chapter 4|27 pages

Cultural evolution

chapter 5|6 pages

Summary and conclusions