Research Catalog

Title

Biological anthropology; readings from Scientific American, with introductions by Solomon H. Katz.

Author

Katz, Solomon H., 1939-

Publication

San Francisco, W.H. Freeman [1975]

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Details

Description

494 pages illustrations; 30 cm

Uniform Title

Scientific American.

Subject

• Physical anthropology
• Anthropology, Physical
• physical anthropology

Genre/Form

Collected Work

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [471]-483.

Contents

I. The evolutionary roots and potentials of the human species -- The earliest apes -- The antiquity of human walking -- Tools and human evolution -- Homo erectus -- The casts of fossil hominid brains -- The social life of baboons -- The omnivorous chimpanzee -- Teaching language to an ape -- Biological foundations of language -- Language and the brain -- II. Evolutionary theory: its development and application to man -- The origin of Darwinism -- Charles Lyell -- The genetic basis of evolution -- The genetic code: III -- The mapping of human chromosomes -- Ionizing radiation and evolution -- Genetic load -- 'Genetic drift' in an Italian population -- III. Race and individuality -- The distribution of man -- The Origin of Races by Coon -- Intelligence and race -- The genetics of human populations -- Growing up -- Deprivation dwarfism -- Getting old -- IV. Adaptation and adaptability -- Lactose and lactase -- The Black Death -- Adaptations to cold -- The physiology of high altitude -- The skin -- The multiple sclerosis problem -- The flow of energy in a hunting society -- The flow of energy in an agricultural society -- V. The challenge of the present -- The present evolution of man -- Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Secies by Dobzhansky -- The Natural History of Aggression edited by Carthy and Elbing -- Biology and the Future of Man edited by Handler -- Prenatal diagnosis of genetic disease -- Human food production as a process in the biosphere -- Toxic substances and ecological cycles -- The history of the human population.

ISBN

• 0716708965
• 9780716708964
• 0716708957
• 9780716708957

LCCN

74012327

OCLC

• ocm00969714
• 969714
• SCSB-281142

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library