Human Adaptation (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Morphy, Howard; Harrison, G. A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the concept of adaptation in four major fields in the human sciences. Genetic aspects are first considered through an examination of the human genes which have so far been identified as conferring survival value in particular environmental circumstances. The drift versus selection argument is also fully reviewed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000320831
• Artikelnr.: 60801913

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