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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.
Preface | p. vii |
Contributors | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective | p. 3 |
History of Human Biology in the United States of America | p. 23 |
Heredity and Patterned Human Variation | p. 51 |
An Introduction to Genetics | p. 53 |
Genetics, Geography, and Human Variation | p. 99 |
Quantitative Variation and Genetics | p. 143 |
Human Adaptability | p. 175 |
Human Adaptation to Climate: Temperature, Ultraviolet Radiation, and Altitude | p. 177 |
Human Nutritional Evolution | p. 251 |
Human Energetics | p. 325 |
Human Biology and Health | p. 385 |
The Epidemiology of Human Disease | p. 387 |
Stress and Human Biology | p. 459 |
The Human Life Course | p. 513 |
Evolution of the Human Life Cycle | p. 515 |
Growth Variation: Biological and Cultural Factois | p. 587 |
Aging, Senescence, and Human Variation | p. 637 |
Population Dynamics | p. 693 |
Demography Part 1: Mortality and Migration | p. 695 |
Demography Part 2: Population Growth and Fertility Regulation | p. 757 |
Glossary | p. 805 |
Index | p. 833 |
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