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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- John
Relethford, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the
Anthropology Department
of the SUNY College at Oneonta, has completed the eighth edition of his
popular college textbook The Human Species: An Introduction to Biological
Anthropology. The text was released recently by McGraw-Hill Publishers.
Dr. Relethford’s book includes material on the process of evolution, the
biology and behavior of the living primates, the fossil record of human
evolution, and factors affecting genetic diversity and biological variation
in living humans.
The seventh edition of The Human Species was used in more than 120
colleges and universities in 34 states.
Dr. Relethford received the 2004 W.W. Howells Book Award from the
Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association
for his book Reflections of Our Past: How Human History is Revealed in
Our Genes. He also wrote Genetics and the Search for Modern Human
Origins, which was published in 2001. He is a co-author of the textbook
Human Biological Variation, published by Oxford University Press in
2006.
A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr.
Relethford is the Past-President of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists and has served the organization as President, Vice
President, and a member of the Executive Committee. He has also served as
Vice President and President of the American Association of Anthropological
Genetics.
A biological anthropologist, Dr. Relethford joined the SUNY Oneonta
faculty in 1981. He was honored with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for
Excellence in Teaching in 1995 and was the inaugural winner of the College’s
Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence in the same year. Dr. Relethford
was promoted to the rank of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1998.
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