These readings were created to accompany ANTH&205 Biological Anthropology at Cascadia College, Bothell, WA. Funding to support the creation of the readings was provided by the Gates Foundation via a grant awarded to the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges in 2010. The readings were created by Tori M Saneda, tenured faculty at Cascadia, and Michelle Field, former associate faculty at Cascadia. Major updates were completed in 2015 and 2022 by Saneda with other updates occurring as needed. The original author is noted with each chapter. We would like to thank Teri Tucker for reviewing the original material in 2010.

Cover Art

DNA: By Jerome Walker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Women: By Armando Olivo Martín del Campo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mountain gorilla: By Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Australopithecus afarensis: By Pbuergler, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons