The Growth of Humanity

by Bogin, Barry

• ISBN13: 9780471354482
• ISBN10: 0471354481
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Liss

Summary

The growth of human populations and human physical growth are intimately related, and their combined study links several fields including anthropology, demography, economics, and history.

Author Biography

Barry Bogin was born in Philadelphia in 1950. He is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dr. Bogin received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University in 1977. Before joining the faculty at UM-Dearborn in 1982 he was a Visiting Professor at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala in Guatemala City and Assistant Professor at Wayne State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Series Introduction	xiii
Of Populations and People	1	(21)
Life History: The Link between Demography and Growth	5	(1)
Why Do Anthropologists Study Human Growth and Demography?	6	(2)
Anthropological Perspective on HIV/AIDS	8	(3)
Biocultural Model of HIV/AIDS	11	(5)
Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS	16	(2)
Economic Effects of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic	18	(1)
Impact of HIV/AIDS on Family Structure and Human Development	18	(2)
Integrated Study of Human Demography and Growth	20
``HIV/AIDS Is Among Us''	12	(1)
Human Growth in Biocultural Perspective	13	(9)
How Populations Grow: History, Methods, and Principles of Demography	22	(41)
Population Problem	22	(3)
Was There a Population Problem?	25	(1)
How Many People?	25	(1)
Human Population Size Today	26	(1)
Population Census	27	(2)
Using Census Data: Defining the Population	29	(2)
Using Census Data: The Life Table	31	(5)
Medical Example of the Use of Life Tables	36	(1)
Life Table Analysis of Growth and Development	37	(4)
From Malthus to Gompertz	41	(1)
Fall and Rise of Biodemography	42	(1)
Fertility and Mortality	43	(6)
Population Pyramids	49	(2)
Population Regulation: Limits to Population Growth	51	(1)
Biocultural Regulation of Human Fertility	52
Questions Found on a Modern Census	30	(31)
Social Regulation of Fertility in the Mormon Church	61	(2)
How People Grow	63	(35)
Basic Principles of Human Growth and Development	64	(1)
Stages in the Life Cycle	64	(34)
Evolution of the Human Life History	98	(45)
Human Life Cycle	99	(3)
Evolution of Human Life History: Growth and Demography	102	(1)
Evolution of Ontogeny	103	(3)
Case for De Novo Childhood	106	(1)
Human Childhood	107	(6)
How and When Did Human Childhood Evolve?	113	(6)
Who Benefits from Childhood?	119	(9)
Summary of Childhood	128	(1)
When and Why Did Adolescence Evolve?	128	(7)
Why Do Girls Have Adolescence, or Why Wait So Long to Have a Baby?	135	(3)
Why Do Boys Have Adolescence?	138	(2)
Summary of Adolescence	140	(1)
Postreproductive Life Stage	140	(1)
Conclusion	141
The Evolutionary Psychology of Childhood	123	(20)
Food, Demography, and Growth	143	(46)
Food for the Body and the Spirit	144	(3)
Nutrients Versus Food	147	(3)
Sources of Knowledge	150	(2)
Human Diet Evolution	152	(6)
Studies of Living Hunters and Gatherers	158	(5)
Summary of Evidence for the Evolution of Human Nutrition	163	(1)
Diet, Agricultural Development, and Demography	163	(3)
Conquest, Food, and Health	166	(3)
``Man or Maize'': Which Came First?	169	(3)
Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Further Decline of Human Health	172	(3)
Demographic Transition	175	(3)
Progress?	178	(2)
Plagues and Progress	180	(1)
Diet and the Diseases of Modern Life	181	(5)
Electronic Revolution	186	(1)
Conclusion	187
Conception of the People of Corn	144	(1)
Classification of Human Societies	145	(44)
Migration and Human Health	189	(40)
Rural-to-Urban Migration	191	(2)
Biology of the City	193	(6)
Urban Migration Since World War II	199	(1)
Are Cities Good or Bad for People?	200	(3)
Biocultural Research on Urban Adaptation	203	(1)
Growth and Development	203	(11)
Fertility and Demography	214	(2)
Three Case Studies of Migrant Fertility	216	(1)
Migrant Selection?	217	(1)
Health Status and Mortality	218	(2)
The U-Curve Model	220	(2)
Effects of Migration on the Remaining Population	222	(3)
Summary: Migration and Adaptation to the City	225	(2)
Biocultural View of Migration	227
Cape Verde: Migration and Morabeza	196	(14)
Migrations Caused by Droughts and Consequent Floods of Famine: Case of the Cape Verde Islands	210	(12)
Changing Family Structure in Cape Verde: Some Effects of Emigration on the Remaining Population	222	(7)
Growth of Humanity	229	(34)
Population Variation in Body Size	230	(9)
Population Variation in Demography	239	(1)
Mirror of Society	240	(2)
Evolutionary Background to Growth and Population Structure	242	(2)
Smaller Body Size Is Not a Genetic Adaptation	244	(1)
Plasticity in Growth and Demography	244	(1)
8,000 Years of Human Growth in Latin America	245	(5)
Anthropometric History	250	(1)
Irish Famine	251	(8)
Desertification of Rural Portugal	259
Giants in the Americas?	232	(21)
Biology of Potato Blight	253	(10)
The Aging of Humanity	263	(18)
Japan: The Aging Sun	265	(3)
Biocultural Aging	268	(1)
Menopause, Aging, and Sexism	269	(1)
The Valuable Grandmother, or Could Menopause Evolve?	270	(5)
Wither Humanity?	275	(4)
Healthy People, Healthy Populations	279	(2)
Glossary	281	(8)
References	289	(24)
Index	313