Human Adaptation

Herausgeber: Morphy, Howard; Harrison, G A

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the concept of adaptation, this text covers genetic aspects; physiological changes which occur when individuals move to another environment; behaviour - especially social behaviour; and the relevance of the adaptation concept to the social sciences and especially to social anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781859739587
• ISBN-10: 185973958X
• Artikelnr.: 21408996

Autorenporträt

G. A. Harrison University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College Howard Morphy Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research,Australian National University

Inhaltsangabe

1. GENETIC ADAPTATION
The detection of selection
Demographic measures
Predictions from trait biology
Empirical study of distributions
Malaria
Deviations from formal models 2. PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION
Climate
Infection
Nutrition
Stress
Adaptability and selection
Fitness
Fitness and variability
3. BEHAVIOURAL ADAPTATION
The problem of measuring adaptation
A peculiarly human problem Is behaviour adaptive? 4. CULTURAL ADAPTATION