Research Guides: Biological & Physical Anthropology: Overview

Recommended Resources

Web of Science
Provides access to the Science citation index expanded (1900-present), Social sciences citation index (1900-present) and Arts & humanities citation index (1975-present).
PubMed
Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.

Nature Biological Anthropology
Find information on our biological origins and evolution; search by keyword to access resources from all journals from Nature.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
The official journal of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Becoming Human
Brings together interactive multimedia, research and scholarship to explore and better understand the course of human evolution.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Catalog of human genes and disorders, including descriptions of the gene or disease, clinical and other features, inheritance, location of gene, and more.

Sapiens
Call Number: CB113.H4 H3713 2015
Explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."
Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology
Call Number: GN50.8 .M63 2005
Highlights the most important methods of shape analysis in anthropology.
Biological Anthropology
Call Number: GN25 .S73 2013
Reference book; good for background information.

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