Polls show that 45% of the American public believes that humans were created about 10,000 years ago and that evolution is a fictitious myth. Another 25% believes that changes in the natural world are directed by a supernatural being with a particular goal in mind. This thinking clashes head on with scientific findings from the past 150 years, and there is a dearth of public critical thinking about the natural world within a scientific framework.

Evolution and Religious Creation Myths seeks to educate and arm the public on the differences between myth and science, fiction and...

The most comprehensive reader on kinship available, Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day.

• Brings together for the first time both classic works from Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, as well as articles on such electrifying contemporary debates as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship.
  
• Draws on the editors' complementary areas of expertise to offer readers a single-volume...

The most comprehensive reader on kinship available, Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day.

• Brings together for the first time both classic works from Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, as well as articles on such electrifying contemporary debates as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship.
  
• Draws on the editors' complementary areas of expertise to offer readers a single-volume...

Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. This work captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history of kinship in anthropology and its theory, and recent research in relation to new directions of anthropology study. Moving beyond the contentious debates of the past, the book covers feminist anthropology on kinship, the expansion...

Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesisis a textbook on human evolution that offers students a unique combination of cultural anthropology and genetics.

• Written by two geneticists---including a world-renowned scientist and founder of the Human Genome Diversity Project---and a socio-cultural anthropologist.
  
• Based on recent findings in genetics and anthropology that indicate the analysis of human culture and evolution demands an integration of these fields of study.
  
• Focuses on evolution---or, rather,...

The Montcliff Apartments, a once elegant building is holding up fairly well despite the decline of its lakefront neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. It is clean, comfortable and the rent is reasonable, which is a fact of the utmost importance to its forty-five tenants, many of them retired or semi-retired and have called the Montcliff home for many years. The atmosphere turns ugly with the arrival of a new tenant, who is not only a drug dealer but also insulting and threatening to the other residents. When one of the tenants is murdered, the police conclude it's the result of a robbery...