Robert L. Anemone

Race and Human Diversity (eBook, ePUB)

A Biocultural Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. This second edition has been thoroughly revised, with new material on human genetic diversity, developmental plasticity and epigenetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351717854
• Artikelnr.: 55339863

Autorenporträt

Robert L. Anemone is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Race and Biological Diversity in Humans 2. The History of the Race
Concept 3. Charles Darwin and Evolutionary Theory 4. Genetics from Mendel
to the Human Genome Project 5. Human Adaptation: Thermoregulation and Skin
Color 6. Human Adaptation: Life at High Altitude 7. Nutrition, Health, and
Growth 8. Race, Intelligence, and Eugenics 9. Race as a Cultural
Construction