Human Biology (eBook)

An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective

Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, Dennis O'Rourke (Herausgeber)

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2012 | 2. Auflage
880 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-10803-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography. Written by four expert authors working in close collaboration, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to provide undergraduate and graduate students with two new chapters: one on race and culture and their ties to human biology, and the other a concluding summary chapter highlighting the integration and intersection of the topics covered in the book.

Autor

Sara Stinson is Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The main focus of her research is on factors that lead to variation in growth among living human populations. She currently serves as Editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. Barry Bogin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. His research interests are in social and cultural factors affecting human growth and the evolution of the human growth pattern. Among his publications are The Growth of Humanity (2001, Wiley) and Patterns of Human Growth (second edition, 1999, Cambridge University Press). Dennis O'Rourke is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. His research focuses on population and evolutionary genetics, ancient DNA, and genetic epidemiology. He served as editor of Human Biology from 1999-2003.

Inhalt

PREFACE vii

CONTRIBUTORS ix

PART I INTRODUCTION 1

1. Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective
3

Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, Dennis O'Rourke, and Rebecca
Huss-Ashmore

2. History of Human Biology in the United States of America
23

Francis E. Johnston and Michael A. Little

PART II HEREDITY AND PATTERNED HUMAN VARIATION 51

3. An Introduction to Genetics 53

Mark L. Weiss and Justin Tackney

4. Genetics, Geography, and Human Variation 99

Dennis O'Rourke and Jake Enk

5. Quantitative Variation and Genetics 143

Lyle W. Konigsberg

PART III HUMAN ADAPTABILITY 175

6. Human Adaptation to Climate: Temperature, Ultraviolet
Radiation, and Altitude 177

Cynthia M. Beall, Nina G. Jablonski, and A. Theodore Steegmann,
Jr.

7. Human Nutritional Evolution 251

William R. Leonard

8. Human Energetics 325

J. Josh Snodgrass

PART IV HUMAN BIOLOGY AND HEALTH 385

9. The Epidemiology of Human Disease 387

Lisa Sattenspiel and Karen Slonim

10. Stress and Human Biology 459

Gillian H. Ice and Gary D. James

PART V THE HUMAN LIFE COURSE 513

11. Evolution of the Human Life Cycle 515

Barry Bogin and B. Holly Smith

12. Growth Variation: Biological and Cultural Factors 587

Sara Stinson

13. Aging, Senescence, and Human Variation 637

Douglas E. Crews and Gillian H. Ice

PART VI POPULATION DYNAMICS 693

14. Demography Part 1: Mortality and Migration 695

Timothy B. Gage, Sharon N. DeWitte, and James W. Wood

15. Demography Part 2: Population Growth and Fertility
Regulation 757

Peter T. Ellison, Barry Bogin, and Mary T.
O'Rourke

GLOSSARY 805

INDEX 833

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anthropologie • Anthropology • Biological Anthropology • Biologische Anthropologie • Biowissenschaften • evolutionary biology • Evolutionsbiologie • Genetik • Humanbiologie • Human Biology • Life Sciences
• ISBN-10: 1-118-10803-5 / 1118108035
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-10803-1 / 9781118108031