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Western civilization in biological perspective : patterns in biohistory

Title: Western civilization in biological perspective : patterns in biohistory / Stephen Boyden.
Author: Boyden, Stephen Vickers.
Publication: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

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Description

xi, 370 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The author explores the patterns of interplay between the biological and cultural processes in human affairs, beginning with the emergence in evolution of "homo sapiens" and carries his survey through the early farming and urban phases of human existence up to the present day.

Series Statement

Oxford science publications

Uniform Title

Oxford science publications.

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 330-359.

Contents

Machine derived contents note: 1. Biohistorical Perspectives -- 2. Adaptation -- 3. Human Needs and Human Behaviour -- 4. The Primeval Phase of Human Experience -- 5. The Early Farming Phase -- 6. The Early Urban Phase -- 7. The Transition to the High-Energy Phase and the Public Health Movement -- 8. Interrelationships Between Society and the Biosphere in the High-Energy Phase -- 9. Societal Developments in the High-Energy Phase -- 10. Humans in the High-Energy Phase -- 11. Possibilities for the Future in Biohistorical Perspective.

ISBN

0198576722
9780198576723
0198577427
9780198577423

LCCN

86023575

OCLC

ocm14273183
14273183
SCSB-8790534

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Princeton University Library