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the biosocial background.

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An edition of Man in adaptation (1968)

Man in adaptation

the biosocial background.

2d ed.
  • 2 Want to read

"This book contains 36 selections that are intended to serve as an introduction to physical anthropology, archeology and linguistics from the point of view of the processes of adaptation."--Preface.

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Aldine Pub. Co.
Language
English
Pages
522

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Cover of: Man in adaptation
Man in adaptation: the biosocial background.
1974, Aldine Pub. Co.
Hardcover in English - 2d ed.
Cover of: Man in adaptation
Man in adaptation: the cultural present.
1974, Aldine Pub. Co.
in English - 2d ed.
Cover of: Man in adaptation
Man in adaptation
1974, Aldine
in English - 2d ed.
Cover of: Man in adaptation
Man in adaptation: the biosocial background
1968, Aldine Pub. Co.
in English
Cover of: Man in adaptation
Man in adaptation: the cultural present.
1968, Aldine Pub. Co.
in English
Cover of: Man in adaptation
Man in adaptation: the biosocial background
1968, Aldine Pub. Co.
in English
Cover of: Man in adaptation
Man in adaptation
1968, Aldine
in English
Cover of: Man in adaptation
Man in adaptation: the cultural present.
1968, Aldine Pub. Co.
in English

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Table of Contents

Issues and concepts in the study of adaptation. Genes, Culture, and Man / George W. Beadle -- Genetic Drift and Selection of Gene Systems / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- How to be Human / William W. Howells -- The Meaning of Fitness and the Future of Mam / P. B. Medawar -- Natural Selection in Man : Some Basic Problems / L. S. Penrose -- The Cultural Animal / Robin Fox -- Behavior and the Origin of Man / S. L. Washburn -- Incipient adaptations : monkeys and apes. Group Size and the Resource Unit / Hans Kummer -- Observations on the Ecology and Social Behavior of the Mountain Gorilla / George B. Schaller and John T. Emlen, Jr. -- The Behavior of Chimpanzees in Their Natural Habitat / Jane Van Lawick-Goodall -- Baboon Ecology and Human Evolution / Irven DeVore and Sherwood L. Washburn -- Social Units of a Free-Living Population of Hamadryas Baboons / Hans Kummer and Fred Kurt -- Kinship and Family in Monkeys, Apes and Man / V. Reynolds -- Status / Alison Jolly -- Explorations in the natural history of human adaptations. The Protocultural Foundations of Human Adaptation / A. Irving Hallowell -- The Evolution of the Human Hand / Bernard Campbell -- Man as Tool-Maker / Kenneth P. Oakley -- Genetics and the Races of Man / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Man for All Seasons / Bernard Campbell -- Hominid Adaptations / David Pilbeam -- Neanderthalers / Bjorn Kurten -- Adaptations in local populations. Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa / Frank B. Livingstone -- Adaptation and Variation among Hunter-Gatherers / I. S. Weiner -- The Effect of Chronic Exposure to Cold on Temperature and Blood Flow of the Hand / G. Malcolm Brown and John Page -- Human Adaptation to High Altitude / Paul T. Baker -- Mineral Metabolism and Behavior : Abnormalities and Calcium Homeostasis / Solomon H. Katz and Edward F. Foulks -- The Spearman and the Archer / Alice M. Brues -- Bushman Hunter-Gatherers : A Study in Human Ecology / Phillip V. Tobios -- Speech as a human adaptation. The Human Revolution / Charles F. Hockett and Robert Ascher -- The Capacity for Language Acquisition / Eric H. Lenneberg -- Functions of Speech : An Evolutionary Approach / Dell H. Hymes -- Urbanism, Migration, and Language / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Linguistic Relativity and Determinism / Roger Brown -- Signifying and Marking : Two Afro-American Speech Acts / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan -- Beginnings in cultural adaptation : archeological explorations. Food Production in Prehistoric Europe / H. T. Waterbolk -- Ecological Zones and Economic Stages / Grahame Clark -- Habitat, Culture, and Archeology / George I. Quimby -- Some Aspects of Prehistoric Society in East-Central Arizona / William A. Longacre -- Cultural Ecology of Nuclear Mesoamerica / William T. Sanders -- Farming Systems and Political Growth in Ancient Oaxaca / Kent V. Flannery, Anne V. T. Kirkby, Michael I. Kirkby, and.
Aubrey W. Williams, Jr. -- Irrigation in the Old Acolhua Domain, Mexico / Eric R. Wolf and Angel Palerm -- Investigating the Origins of Mesopotamian Civilization / Frank Hole -- The Study of Ancient Mesopotamian Settlement Patterns and the Problem of Urban Origins / Robert McC. Adams -- Early Civilizations, Subsistence, and Environment / Robert McC. Adams.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
573
Library of Congress
GN29 .C57 1974, QH368 C678m 1974

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xi, 522 p.
Number of pages
522
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5092764M
Internet Archive
maninadaptationb0000cohe
ISBN 10
0202011119, 0202011127
LCCN
74164363
OCLC/WorldCat
903673
Library Thing
4189590
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1604/9780202011127
Goodreads
4386675

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