Human Population Biology A Transdisciplinary Science [Hardcover]

This book is a careful integration of the social and biological sciences, drawing on anthropology, biology, human ecology and medicine to provide a comprehensive understanding of how our species adapts to natural and man-made environments. Part I presents techniques to adapt and apply demographic methods to small populations, particularly important for studying non-Western populations. Part II discusses the relationship of medical genetics to human adaptability and patterns of disease in non-Western populations. Part III covers capacity, climatic stress, and nutrition. Part IV presents methods for growth assessment and prediction and addresses the topic of aging. The final section, Part V, presents integrated case studies of human adaptation to high altitude, and patterns of modernization and stress resulting from cultural change.

Introduction: Human Population Biology and the Concept of Transdisciplinarity,M. A. Little and J. D. Haas
PART I: Demography and Population
1. Demography and Human Population Biology: Problems and Progress,P. W. Leslie and T. B. Gage
2. Demographic Studies and Human Population Biology,T. B. Gage et al.
PART II: Genetics, Epidemiology, and Clinical Medicine
3. Human Adaptability and Medical Genetics,C. Hoff, R. M. Garruto and N. Durham
4. Natural Experimental Models in Human Biology, Epidemiology and Clinical Medicine,R. M. Garruto et al.
PART III: Physiology and the Environment
5. An Anthropological Perspective on the Study of Work Capacity,C. A. Weitz
6. Climatic Physiology,J. M. Hanna, M. A. Little, and D. M. Austin
7. Nutrition and Human Population Biology,J. D. Haas and D. L. Pelletier
PART IV: The Life Cycle
8. New Perspectives and Directions in Human Biology and Growth,I. G. Pawson, C. C. Ballew, and J. R. Bindon
9. The Human Populationl-