Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1 The pervasiveness of plasticity
- 2 Plasticity in early development
- 3 Plasticity in the growth of Mayan refugee children living in the United States
- 4 The place of plasticity in the study of the secular trend for male stature: an analysis of Danish biological population history
- 5 Plasticity, growth and energy balance
- 6 The study of migrants as a strategy for understanding human biological plasticity
- 7 Human migration: effects on people, effects on populations
- 8 The use of surnames in the study of human variation and plasticity
- 9 A biological anthropological approach to measuring societal stress of parasitic disease: a case study of schistosomiasis
- 10 Biological adaptability, plasticity and disease: patterns in modernizing societies
- 11 Human biological adaptability with special emphasis on plasticity: history, development and problems for future research
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1 The pervasiveness of plasticity
- 2 Plasticity in early development
- 3 Plasticity in the growth of Mayan refugee children living in the United States
- 4 The place of plasticity in the study of the secular trend for male stature: an analysis of Danish biological population history
- 5 Plasticity, growth and energy balance
- 6 The study of migrants as a strategy for understanding human biological plasticity
- 7 Human migration: effects on people, effects on populations
- 8 The use of surnames in the study of human variation and plasticity
- 9 A biological anthropological approach to measuring societal stress of parasitic disease: a case study of schistosomiasis
- 10 Biological adaptability, plasticity and disease: patterns in modernizing societies
- 11 Human biological adaptability with special emphasis on plasticity: history, development and problems for future research
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Human Variability and Plasticity , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995