Human adaptability : past, present, and future : the first Parkes Foundation workshop, Oxford, January 1994
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Human adaptability : past, present, and future : the first Parkes Foundation workshop, Oxford, January 1994
（Oxford science publications）
Oxford University Press, 1997
Available at 13 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Adaptation and adaptability are central issues in human population biology and biological anthropology. They are the processes by which relationships between humans and their environments are established and maintained. This volume charts developments in the study of human adaptation and adaptability at the population level in both theoretical and methodological terms. It represents a unique evaluation by the leading researchers in the field, offers a unique review
of adaptability studies, and it identifies future directions for the study of human population biology in a changing world.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I:
- 2. Human adaptation and adaptability
- 3. The role of the Human Adaptability International Biological Programme in the development of human population biology
- Part II:
- 4. Adaptability of African pastoralists
- 5. Human adaptability research among African agriculturalists
- 6. The contributions of field research in the Gambia to the study of human adaptability
- 7. Human adaptability studies in Papua New Guinea: original aims, successes and failures
- 8. Coming of age of human adaptability studies in Samoa
- 9. Biological adaptability of Australian aboriginal people
- Part III:
- 10. Wandering to the edge of adaptability
- 11. Circumpolar studies
- 12. Human adaptability research methodology
- 13. The evolution of human adaptability: society, funding and the conduct of science
- 14. The future of human adaptability research
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