anthropometry

Text and illustrations look at the sizes of over seventy different animals features, including their tongues, teeth, claws, eggs, tails, and more.

Explains how modern scientific techniques are used to piece together the stories behind human remains and how the information is used to create a picture of the cultures and ritual beliefs of a range of ancient societies.

Discusses the unearthing of four hominins--Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman--and the ways that new technology has helped archaeological specialists to refine their theories and change their view of the past.

Professor Bryan Sykes gives a firsthand account of his research into a gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line.

"... biologist Graeme Ruxton explains how and why nature's giants came to be so big--for example, how decreased oxygen levels limited the size of insects and how island isolation allowed small-bodied animals to evolve larger body sizes. Through a diverse array of examples, from huge butterflies to giant squid, Ruxton explores the physics, biology, and evolutionary drivers behind organism size, showing what it's like to live large"--Jacket flap.

Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others.

Provides an overview of anthropometrics--the study of human measurements on a comparative basis--for people involved in the interior design profession, reviewing the theory and application of anthropometrics, featuring illustrated, anthropometric tables which provide data on human body size, and including dimensioned drawings.

An anthropologist examines growing evidence about early visitors to North America who predate Native Americans and describes the 1996 discovery of a skeleton near Kennewick, Washington, whose physical characteristics where unlike those of American Indians.

Explores the Bone Chapel, or Sedlec Ossuary, located in the small Czech Republic town of Kutn? Hora, that is decorated with the bones of than 40,000 people.

Examines ways in which an individual's identity can be verified, different ways this information can be used, and technological advances in the process, and some issues concerning use of technology to identify people.