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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009052450
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 178 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Understanding life
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    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Race ; Human evolution
    Abstract: The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As this book shows, however, none of those biological variations can be understood in terms of discrete races, which do not actually exist as definable entities. Starting with a consideration of evolution and the mechanisms of diversification in nature, this book moves to an examination of attitudes to human variation throughout history, showing that it was only with the advent of slavery that considerations of human variation became politicized. It then embarks on a consideration of how racial classifications have been applied to genomic studies, demonstrating how individualized genomics is a much more effective approach to clinical treatments. It also shows how racial stratification does nothing to help us understand the phenomenon of human variation, at either the genomic or physical levels.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511894794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 410 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Social evolution
    Abstract: How can the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours seen in nature be explained? Drawing on social evolution theory, experimental evidence and studies conducted in the field, this book outlines the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying this phenomenal richness.To succeed in the competition for resources, organisms may either 'race' to be quicker than others, 'fight' for privileged access, or 'share' their efforts and gains. The authors show how the ecology and intrinsic attributes of organisms select for each of these strategies, and how a handful of straightforward concepts explain the evolution of successful decision rules in behavioural interactions, whether among members of the same or different species. With a broad focus ranging from microorganisms to humans, this is the first book to provide students and researchers with a comprehensive account of the evolution of sociality by natural selection
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781108476843
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 219 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 83
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology
    DDC: 599.9
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    Keywords: Physical anthropology Research ; Human evolution ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Humanbiologie ; Forschungsmethode
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 306 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought.
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511600500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 14
    DDC: 573/.6
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    Keywords: Methode ; Anthropometrie ; Wachstum ; Mensch
    Abstract: Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology, and is used in a wide range of applied and research contexts. In this volume, distinguished contributors including anthropologists, human biologists, physiologists, nutritionists and clinical scientists describe many of the ways in which anthropometry is used, and discuss problems associated with different methods of assessment. Topics include the measurement of growth asymmetry and variability in adult body size, measurement error and statistical issues in anthropometry and the construction and use of growth charts in growth monitoring. The use of anthropometry in assessments of body composition, physical performance and fitness is also discussed. The book will be of interest to graduates and researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition. It will also be useful to workers in sports medicine, ergonomics, orthopaedics and paediatrics.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780511565533
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages)
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    DDC: 304.5
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    Keywords: Sociobiology ; Human behavior ; Primates / Behavior ; Social behavior in animals ; Social structure ; Behavior evolution ; Vergleichende Psychologie ; Sozialverhalten ; Schimpanse ; Mensch ; Schimpanse ; Mensch ; Sozialverhalten ; Sozialverhalten ; Vergleichende Psychologie
    Abstract: This innovative book challenges the perceived view, based largely on long observation of artificially-fed chimpanzees in Gombe and Mahale National Parks, Tanzania, of the typical social behaviour of chimpanzees as aggressive, dominance seeking, and fiercely territorial. In polar opposition, all reports from naturalistic (non-feeding) field studies are of non-aggressive chimpanzees living peacefully in non-hierarchical groups, on home ranges open to all. These reports have been ignored and downgraded by most of the scientific community. By utilising the data from these studies the author is able to construct a model of an egalitarian form of social organisation, based on a fluid role relationship of mutual dependence between many charismatic chimpanzees of both sexes and other more dependent members. This highly and necessarily positive mutual dependence system is characteristic of both (undisturbed) chimpanzees and (undisturbed) humans who live by the 'immediate-return' foraging system
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword / A. Montagu -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Methods and prefatory explanations -- Introduction methods -- Part II. The human foragers -- Part III. The changing social order -- Part IV. The behaviour of wild and provisioned groups -- Part V. The mutual dependence system -- Part VI. The egalitarian chimpanzees -- Part VII. Probabilities, possibilities and half-head whispers -- Notes -- References -- Index
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511629105
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 397 pages)
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    Keywords: Anthropometrie ; Wachstum ; Mensch
    Abstract: The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. It is this theme which underlies the analysis and presentation of what is by far the largest compilation of growth data ever assembled. The first edition, published in 1976, included all known reliable recent results on height, weight, skinfolds and other body measurements from all parts of the globe. In this edition, the very numerous measurements taken between 1976 and 1988 have been included as well as the results of the large number of new studies made on rate of maturation as evinced by bone age and pubertal development stages. Many sections of the book dwell on disentangling the effects of the environment and heredity on growth, and thus answer the question of whether one universal standard suffices for all peoples of the world, or whether different populations (such as races or nations) should each have their own optimal growth standards. Written by practical people with experience of the problems in developing countries, this book explains in simple terms the different sorts of growth surveys, how to set about making them, and which sort to choose. All who are professionally concerned with child health should read it.
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