174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the concept of adaptation in four major fields in the human sciences. Genetic aspects are first considered through an examination of the human genes which have so far been identified as conferring survival value in particular environmental circumstances. The drift versus selection argument is also fully reviewed. The second contribution concerns the physiological changes which... Read more
1. GENETIC ADAPTATION, The detection of selection, Demographic measures, Predictions from trait biology, Empirical study of distributions, Malaria, Deviations from formal models 2. PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION, Climate, Infection, Nutrition, Stress, Adaptability and selection, Fitness, Fitness and variability, 3. BEHAVIOURAL ADAPTATION, The problem of measuring adaptation, A peculiarly human problem Is behaviour adaptive? 4. CULTURAL ADAPTATION
Biography
G. A. Harrison University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College Howard Morphy Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research,Australian National University
