Research Catalog

Title

Human populations : diversity and adaptation / edited by V. Reynolds and A.J. Boyce.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Reynolds, Vernon.
• Boyce, A. J. (Anthony J.)

Description

x, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford science publications

Uniform Title

Oxford science publications.

Subject

• Physical anthropology
• Nature and nurture
• Social evolution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Patterns of marriage in the Isle of Harris / E. J. Clegg -- 2. Fertility in Britain: variation and its significance / D. A. Coleman -- 3. Interaction between religions and reproduction in human populations / V. Reynolds -- 4. The influence of consanguineous marriage on reproductive behaviour in India and Pakistan / A. H. Bittles -- 5. Human assortative mating: evidence and genetic implications / C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor -- 6. Using within-populational variability to measure environmental optimality and adaptability / L. H. Schmitt -- 7. Growth variation and comparative growth homeostasis / G. Brush -- 8. Mother's morale and infant health in Ethiopia / A. M. Almedom -- 9. Living with schistosomes: adaptation, accommodation, or severe ill-health? / M. Parker -- 10. Child-care strategies in Nepal: responses to ecology, demography, and society / C. Panter-Brick -- 11. Change and variability in Papua New Guinea's patterns of disease / R. D. Attenborough and M. P. Alpers --
• 12. Population genetics of the [alpha]-globin complex in Oceania / A. J. Boyce, R. M. Harding and J. J. Martinson -- 13. The Cerdanya, a valley divided: biosocial anthropology in a research project / H. M. Macbeth -- 14. Inside the gurrnganngara: social processes and demographic genetics in north-east Arnhem Land, Australia / N. G. White.

ISBN

0198522940 :

LCCN

94034343

OCLC

• 31010929
• ocm31010929

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries