Human Biology

Human Biology
Author: Sara Stinson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 887
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0470179643

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.

Perspectives on Human Biology

Perspectives on Human Biology
Author: Stuart Ira Fox
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1991-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780697109996

Building a New Biocultural Synthesis

Building a New Biocultural Synthesis
Author: Alan H. Goodman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1998-10-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780472066063

DIVShows the potential for a reintegrated, critical, and politically relevant biocultural anthropology /div

The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior

The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior
Author: Lance Workman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1570
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108900968

The transformative wave of Darwinian insight continues to expand throughout the human sciences. While still centered on evolution-focused fields such as evolutionary psychology, ethology, and human behavioral ecology, this insight has also influenced cognitive science, neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, media studies, and clinical psychology. This handbook's goal is to amplify the wave by bringing together world-leading experts to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of evolution-oriented and influenced fields. While evolutionary psychology remains at the core of the collection, it also covers the history, current standing, debates, and future directions of the panoply of fields entering the Darwinian fold. As such, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior is a valuable reference not just for evolutionary psychologists but also for scholars and students from many fields who wish to see how the evolutionary perspective is relevant to their own work.

Human Perspectives Units 1 & 2

Human Perspectives Units 1 & 2
Author: Terry J. Newton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014
Genre: Human biology
ISBN: 9780170351126

Human Perspectives Units 1 & 2 and Units 3 & 4, seventh editions, have been written to address the updated WACE ATAR course for Human Biology. Each chapter features information under clear subject headings making it easy to navigate, read and assimilate. The content is highly illustrated with photographs, electron micrograph images and annotated diagrams, which are designed to engage students and to encourage scientific thinking, investigation and problem solving. These titles are supported by a NelsonNet website and NelsonNetBook.

The Nature of Difference

The Nature of Difference
Author: George Ellison
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2006-04-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1420004174

Unprecedented advances in genetics and biotechnology have brought profound new insights into human biological variation. These present challenges and opportunities for understanding the origins of human nature, the nature of difference, and the social practices these sustain. This provides an opportunity for cooperation between the biological and s

Human Evolutionary Biology

Human Evolutionary Biology
Author: Michael P. Muehlenbein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1139789007

Wide-ranging and inclusive, this text provides an invaluable review of an expansive selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals and students in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences and psychology. The chapters are organized around four broad themes, with sections devoted to phenotypic and genetic variation within and between human populations, reproductive physiology and behavior, growth and development, and human health from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. An introductory section provides readers with the historical, theoretical and methodological foundations needed to understand the more complex ideas presented later. Two hundred discussion questions provide starting points for class debate and assignments to test student understanding.

Perspectives In Human Biology: Genes, Ethnicity And Ageing

Perspectives In Human Biology: Genes, Ethnicity And Ageing
Author: Linc H Schmitt
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 109
Release: 1995-11-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814499390

This volume takes its subtitle from the theme of the ASHB meeting for 1994 “Genes, Ethnicity and Ageing”. The first paper is the annual conference lecture as delivered by the Honourable Fred Chaney, formerly Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the Federal Government of Australia. It considers some of the difficulties in delivering government services to indigenous peoples. Jim Chisholm puts an evolutionary perspective on some aspects of human behaviour, life history and Darwinian approaches to medicine. Carol Bower reviews the value of the Western Australian Birth Defects Registry and the contributions of registries to improved health care. Alexandra Brewis and Gokarna Regmi document determinants of fertility in a Pacific Island population. There are two papers from a special symposium on Ageing and the Aged held within the meeting: George Broe and Helen Creasey consider some of the social issues associated with an ageing society, and Alan Hipkiss and colleagues take a biochemist's look at possibilities for extending the human life cycle.There are two additional papers. One by Alan Bittles documents consanguinity in the Middle East. The second, by Tsunehiko Hanihara and Hajime Ishida describes the results of their studies of Australian Aboriginals and neighbouring populations.“Understanding Ageing”, by Robin Holliday, Cambridge University Press is reviewed by Anne Mitchell.

Human Development

Human Development
Author: Maria Lucia Seidl-De-Moura
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9535106104

Human development has different meanings depending on the area we focus on. To the psychologists it is the ontogenetic process of individual development. It considers systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. To sociologists and economists, among others, the main consideration is the macro-level of countries or regions and their development conditions related to human needs. Our book has two parts. The first one is entitled "Development in the ontogenesis" and it consists of three chapters whilst the second is "Human development: contextual factors", also including 3 chapters. Together, the two parts give the readers a panoramic view of very complex subjects and complement each other. Researchers of ontogenetic development cannot ignore that contextual factors are the basis of this process. On the other hand, social scientists worried about the macro variables need to remember that they are dealing with people, who are affected one way or another by those variables and whose development is the product of biology and culture.