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Human variability and plasticity

Title: Human variability and plasticity / edited by C.G.N. Mascie-Taylor and Barry Bogin.
Publication: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Description

xiv, 241 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in biological anthropology ; 15

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in biological anthropology ; 15.

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Note

"This volume is published to honour the professional life of Gabriel W. Lasker"--p.[vii].

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Foreword / G.A. Harrison -- 1. The pervasiveness of plasticity / D.F. Roberts -- 2. Plasticity in early development / D.J. Pritchard -- 3. Plasticity in the growth of Mayan refugee children living in the United States / B. Bogin -- 4. The place of plasticity in the study of the secular trend for male stature: an analysis of Danish biological population history / J.L. Boldsen -- 5. Plasticity, growth and energy balance / S.J. Ulijaszek -- 6. The study of migrants as a strategy for understanding human biological plasticity / G.W. Lasker -- 7. Human migration: effects on people, effects on populations / D. Coleman -- 8. The use of surnames in the study of human variation and plasticity / J.H. Relethford -- 9. A biological anthropological approach to measuring societal stress of parasitic disease: a case study of schistosomiasis / C.G.N. Mascie-Taylor and G.E.H. Mohamed -- 10. Biological adaptability, plasticity and disease: patterns in modernizing societies / R.M. Garruto --
11. Human biological adaptability with special emphasis on plasticity: history, development and problems for future research / L.M. Schell.

ISBN

0521453992

LCCN

94033686

OCLC

ocm31170811

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Columbia University Libraries