Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reproductive ecology and human fertility
- 3 Nutritional status: its measurement and relation to health
- 4 Pollution and human growth: lead, noise, polychlorobiphenyl compounds and toxic wastes
- 5 Human physiological adaptation to high-altitude environments
- 6 Darwinian fitness, physical fitness and physical activity
- 7 Human evolution and the genetic epidemiology of chronic degenerative diseases
- 8 The biology of human aging
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reproductive ecology and human fertility
- 3 Nutritional status: its measurement and relation to health
- 4 Pollution and human growth: lead, noise, polychlorobiphenyl compounds and toxic wastes
- 5 Human physiological adaptation to high-altitude environments
- 6 Darwinian fitness, physical fitness and physical activity
- 7 Human evolution and the genetic epidemiology of chronic degenerative diseases
- 8 The biology of human aging
- Index
Summary
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- Chapter
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- Applications of Biological Anthropology to Human Affairs , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991