Perspectives In Human Biology
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| 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.
| 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
| 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.
| 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.
| Author | : Terry J. Newton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Human biology |
| ISBN | : 9780170197861 |
| Author | : Robert M. Sapolsky |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 801 |
| Release | : 2018-05-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0143110918 |
New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year “It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post From the bestselling author of A Primate's Memoir and the forthcoming Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will comes a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky—a neuroscientist and primatologist—uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement—a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.
| 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
| Author | : Jonathan CK Wells |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2006-05-22 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1420005839 |
Recent research has emphasized that socially transmitted information may affect both the gene pool and the phenotypes of individuals and populations, and that an improved understanding of evolutionary issues is beneficial to those working towards the improvement of human health. In response to a growing interest across disciplines for information regarding the contribution of social behavior to a range of biological outcomes, Social Information Transmission and Human Biology connects the work of evolutionary theorists and those dealing with practical issues in human health and demographics. Combining evolutionary models with biomedical research, authors from various disciplines look at how human behavior influences health, and how reproductive fitness sheds light on the processes that shaped the evolution of human behavior. Both academic and medical researchers will find much useful insight in this text.
| 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.
| 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.
