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Author : Anup K. Kapoor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biology of Highlanders written by Anup K. Kapoor and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Stinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470179643
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Human Biology written by Sara Stinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography. Written by four expert authors working in close collaboration, this second edition has been thoroughly updated to provide undergraduate and graduate students with two new chapters: one on race and culture and their ties to human biology, and the other a concluding summary chapter highlighting the integration and intersection of the topics covered in the book.
Author : Michael A. Little
Publisher : Research Monographs on Human P
ISBN 13 : 0195050169
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Human Population Biology written by Michael A. Little and published by Research Monographs on Human P. This book was released on 1989 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Izumi Shimada
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292760795
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Inka Empire written by Izumi Shimada and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in the ancient New World, a system headed, paradoxically, by a single, small minority group without wheeled vehicles, markets, or a writing system, the Inka. For some 130 years (ca. A.D. 1400 to 1533), the Inka ruled over at least eighty-six ethnic groups in an empire that encompassed about 2 million square kilometers, from the northernmost region of the Ecuador–Colombia border to northwest Argentina. The Inka Empire brings together leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines, including human genetics, linguistics, textile and architectural studies, ethnohistory, and archaeology, to present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inkas. The contributors provide the latest data and understandings of the political, demographic, and linguistic evolution of the Inkas, from the formative era prior to their political ascendancy to their post-conquest transformation. The scholars also offer an updated vision of the unity, diversity, and essence of the material, organizational, and symbolic-ideological features of the Inka Empire. As a whole, The Inka Empire demonstrates the necessity and value of a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates the insights of fields beyond archaeology and ethnohistory. And with essays by scholars from seven countries, it reflects the cosmopolitanism that has characterized Inka studies ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century.
Author : Paul T. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521215237
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Biology of High-Altitude Peoples written by Paul T. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-04-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the biology of the various groups of people who live at high altitudes.
Author : George Constantz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders written by George Constantz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia hosts more species of deciduous trees, salamanders, darters, and shrews than any other region of North America. Mosses, ferns, sedges, and heaths also abound. This huge variety of living things is due in large part to the highlands' antiquity and convoluted topography. Appalachia's beauty is dynamic, though, and every walk a stream of colors, wing prints in snow, spring wildflowers, and every day will reveal a new sight, sound, or smell. Even in the dead of winter I can detect a change in the tufted titmouse's call, a shifting to the serious song of spring.
Author : Balraj Bhatia
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483188027
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Selected Topics in Environmental Biology written by Balraj Bhatia and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected Topics in Environmental Biology covers the proceedings of the 26th International Congress of Physiological Sciences on Environmental Biology, held in New Delhi, India on October 20-26, 1974. The symposium is arranged in the subjects of high altitude and under water physiology and the physiological effects of cold, heat, and accelerations. This book is organized into 13 sections encompassing 74 chapters. The opening part deals with the principles and mechanisms of thermoregulation, with emphasis on the role of neurotransmitters in temperature regulation. The succeeding parts examine metabolic aspects and adaptive mechanisms to cold and heat stress. These parts also survey the thyroid function, resistance, acclimatization, and nerve impulse effects of these conditions. Other parts discuss the hypothalamic control and susceptibility to hypothermia and thermal injury; the capacity of short-term and prolonged exposure to hypoxia; the pathogenesis of pulmonary edema; and the constitution and body functions in different ethnic groups. These topics are followed by reviews on the body adaptive changes under hypogravic state, biochemical changes induced by environmental pollution, and physiological behavior under noise, hyperbaric, and emotional stress. The last part describes the effect of environmental stress on diurnal variations in body functions. This book will prove useful to environmental biologists, physiologists, biochemists, and researchers.
Author : Éva B. Bodzsár
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Studies in Human Biology written by Éva B. Bodzsár and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119828058
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Biological Anthropology written by Clark Spencer Larsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Biological Anthropology The discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives—has undergone enormous growth in recent years. Advances in DNA research, behavioral anthropology, nutrition science, and other fields are transforming our understanding of what makes us human. A Companion to Biological Anthropology provides a timely and comprehensive account of the foundational concepts, historical development, current trends, and future directions of the discipline. Authoritative yet accessible, this field-defining reference work brings together 37 chapters by established and younger scholars on the biological and evolutionary components of the study of human development. The authors discuss all facets of contemporary biological anthropology including systematics and taxonomy, population and molecular genetics, human biology and functional adaptation, early primate evolution, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and paleogenetics. Updated and expanded throughout, this second edition explores new topics, revisits key issues, and examines recent innovations and discoveries in biological anthropology such as race and human variation, epidemiology and catastrophic disease outbreaks, global inequalities, migration and health, resource access and population growth, recent primate behavior research, the fossil record of primates and humans, and much more. A Companion to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and advanced students in biological anthropology, geosciences, ancient and modern disease, bone biology, biogeochemistry, behavioral ecology, forensic anthropology, systematics and taxonomy, nutritional anthropology, and related disciplines.
Author : Michael P. Muehlenbein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521879485
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Human Evolutionary Biology written by Michael P. Muehlenbein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and inclusive text focusing on topics in human evolution and the understanding of modern human variation and adaptability.
Author : Richard C. Lewontin
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887845185
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Biology as Ideology written by Richard C. Lewontin and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1991 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist — a geneticist who teaches at Harvard — yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours. Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive structure, and they view nature through a lens that has been molded by their social experience. . . . Science, like the Church before it, is a supremely social institution, reflecting and reinforcing the dominant values and vices of society at each historical epoch." In Biology as IdeologyLewontin examines the false paths down which modern scientific ideology has led us. By admitting science's limitations, he helps us rediscover the richness of nature — and appreciate the real value of science.
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Southern Highlander written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert G. B. Reid
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262264420
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Biological Emergences written by Robert G. B. Reid and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology. Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm will encourage creationists and proponents of intelligent design. In Biological Emergences, Robert Reid argues that natural selection is not the cause of evolution. He writes that the causes of variations, which he refers to as natural experiments, are independent of natural selection; indeed, he suggests, natural selection may get in the way of evolution. Reid proposes an alternative theory to explain how emergent novelties are generated and under what conditions they can overcome the resistance of natural selection. He suggests that what causes innovative variation causes evolution, and that these phenomena are environmental as well as organismal. After an extended critique of selectionism, Reid constructs an emergence theory of evolution, first examining the evidence in three causal arenas of emergent evolution: symbiosis/association, evolutionary physiology/behavior, and developmental evolution. Based on this evidence of causation, he proposes some working hypotheses, examining mechanisms and processes common to all three arenas, and arrives at a theoretical framework that accounts for generative mechanisms and emergent qualities. Without selectionism, Reid argues, evolutionary innovation can more easily be integrated into a general thesis. Finally, Reid proposes a biological synthesis of rapid emergent evolutionary phases and the prolonged, dynamically stable, non-evolutionary phases imposed by natural selection.
Author : Ashoke Kumar Das
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394190697
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Chemistry, Biology and Pharmacology of Lichen written by Ashoke Kumar Das and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the properties and applications of one of the world’s most ubiquitous flora Lichen is a single entity comprising two or more organisms—most typically algae and fungus—in a symbiotic relationship. It is one of the planet’s most abundant categories of flora, with over 25,000 known species across all regions of the globe. Lichens’ status as a rich source of bioactive metabolites and phytochemicals, as well as their potential as bio-indicators, has given them an increasingly prominent role in modern research into medicine, cosmetics, food, and more. Chemistry, Biology and Pharmacology of Lichen provides a comprehensive overview of these bountiful flora and their properties. It provides not only in-depth analysis of lichen physiology and ecology, but also a thorough survey of their modern and growing applications. It provides all the tools readers need to domesticate lichen and bring their properties to bear on some of humanity’s most intractable scientific problems. Chemistry, Biology and Pharmacology of Lichen readers will also find: Applications of lichen in fields ranging from food to cosmetics to nanoscience and beyond Detailed discussion of topics including lichen as habitats for other organisms, lichens as anticancer drugs, antimicrobial properties of lichen, and many more Detailed discussion on key bioactive compounds from lichens Chemistry, Biology and Pharmacology of Lichen is ideal for scientists and researchers in ethnobotany, pharmacology, chemistry, and biology, as well as teachers and students with an interest in biologically important lichens.
Author : Michael H. Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521546973
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Anthropological Genetics written by Michael H. Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume detailing the effects of the molecular revolution on anthropological genetics and how it redefined the field.
Author : Lynsay Sands
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1420134167
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)
Download or read book My Immortal Highlander written by Lynsay Sands and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynsay Sands and Hannah Howell return to the windswept Highlands of 16th century Scotland in the captivating story of identical twin brothers trapped between the curse that has been their legacy and the two women whose love is their destiny . . . As identical twins, Bothan and Calum MacNachton share a bond stronger than most brothers, one forged by a terrible secret. Rumors and dark tales have been whispered about their clan for centuries. For they roam the Highlands at night, driven by a savage hunger that can never be sated. Their only hope lies in marriage to Outsiders, mortal women whose pure blood will weaken the hold of their eternal curse. Kenna Brodie and Sarra DeCourcey know what it is to stand apart. They’ve heard the terrible, whispered warnings, but nothing could prepare them for the handsome brothers whose fierce, unyielding desires are beyond any legend . . . What Bothan and Calum promise is a life unlike any Kenna and Sarra have ever known. Now, Kenna and Sarra must choose whether to betray their dark lords or stand and fight for a passion that will never die . . .
Author : Richard David Jurd
Publisher : Garland Science
ISBN 13 : 9781859963258
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Instant Notes Animal Biology written by Richard David Jurd and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a student-friendly compendium of the essentials of animal biology, including the Animal Kingdom, comparative physiology, reproductive physiology and developmental biology.
