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Author : Charles R. Carroll
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780697003980
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Health written by Charles R. Carroll and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1986 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Robert Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780697073945
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Health, the Science of Human Adaptation written by Charles Robert Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Roberto Frisancho
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472095117
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Human Adaptation and Accommodation written by A. Roberto Frisancho and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text that explores how humans adapt to conditions of physical stress
Author : Michael P. Muehlenbein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139789007
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 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 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging and inclusive, this text provides an invaluable review of an expansive selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals and students in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences and psychology. The chapters are organized around four broad themes, with sections devoted to phenotypic and genetic variation within and between human populations, reproductive physiology and behavior, growth and development, and human health from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. An introductory section provides readers with the historical, theoretical and methodological foundations needed to understand the more complex ideas presented later. Two hundred discussion questions provide starting points for class debate and assignments to test student understanding.
Author : Charles R. Carroll
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Health, the Science of Human Adaptation written by Charles R. Carroll and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1979 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses aspects of the human life cycle including genetics, disease, personality, mental health, smoking, marriage, sex, population, eating, consumerism, environment, and dying.
Author : Yehudi A. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351514725
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Human Adaptation written by Yehudi A. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underlying the anthropological study of humans is the principle that there is a reality to which a human must adapt for survival. Populations must adapt to the realities of the physical world and maintain a proper fit between their biological makeup and the pressures of the various niches of the world. Social groups must develop adaptive mechanisms in the organization of their social relations if there is to be order, regularity, and predictability in patterns of cooperation and competition. This book presents an introduction to anthropology that is unified and made systematic by its focus on adaptations that have accompanied the evolution of humans, from non-human primates to inhabitants of vast urban areas in modern industrial societies. Human Adaptation contains over forty outstanding essays that are intended to serve as an introduction to physical anthropology, archeology, and linguistics from the point of view of the processes of adaptation. The organization of these selections contains a balance between biological and prehistoric cultural adaptations. They provide coherence for the study of human evolution. Several selections, notably those in connection with linguistic adaptations, deal with contemporary people in order to shed light on earlier evolutionary processes. More than half of the selections deal with biological evolution. This volume unifies the subject matter of anthropology within a single and powerful explanatory framework and incorporates the work of the most renowned anthropological experts on man.
Author : Howard Morphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000324230
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Human Adaptation written by Howard Morphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 occur when individuals move from one environment to another. In the past, most attention has been given to the mechanisms of these changes, but here the focus is on the effects. The third contribution is directed at the analysis of behaviour - especially social behaviour. The application of kin selection and reciprocal attraction theories to humans is explored and the value of these approaches explained, whether the behaviour has a genetic basis or not. The final essay deals with the relevance of the adaptation concept to the social sciences and especially to social anthropology. It demonstrates that an ecological approach to understanding the nature and structure of human societies demands attention to adaptation.Reprinted in paperback for the first time and with a new foreword, this book, which serves as an excellent teaching text, clearly shows how attempts at integration in each of these various fields can benefit the study of human evolution, social structure and organization from all perspectives.
Author : A. Roberto Frisancho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Human Adaptation written by A. Roberto Frisancho and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yehudi A. Cohen
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 1412844495
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Human Adaptation written by Yehudi A. Cohen and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., 1968.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789400932845
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Breakdown in Human Adaptation to 'Stress' written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-12 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Cullen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780898386066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Breakdown in Human Adaptation to ‘Stress' written by J. Cullen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread interest in "stressful" aspects of contemporary society which contribute to its burden of illness and diseases (e.g. gastro intestinal, cardiovascular) has led to a large number of state ments and reports which relate the manifestations to a maladaptation of the individual. Furthermore, recent research suggests that under some condi tions stress may have a more generalized effect of decreasing the body's ability to combat destructive forces and expose it to a variety of diseases. Breakdown in adaptation occurs when an individual cannot cope with demands inherent in his environment. These may be due to an excessive mental or physical load, including factors of a social or psychological nature and task performance requirements ranging from those which are monotonous, simple and repetitive to complex, fast, decision-taking ones. Experience shows however that not all people placed under the same condi tions suffer similarly, and it follows that to the social and psychological environment should be added a genetic factor influencing, through the brain, the responses of individuals. It is clear that, besides human suffering, this "breakdown in adaptation" causes massive losses of revenue to industry and national health authorities. Thus a reduction in "stress", before "breakdown" occurs, or an improvement in coping with it would be very valuable.
Author : Erik R. Swenson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461487722
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book High Altitude written by Erik R. Swenson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade the science and medicine of high altitude and hypoxia adaptation has seen great advances. High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia addresses the challenges in dealing with the changes in human physiology and the particular medical conditions that arise from exposure to high altitude. In-depth and comprehensive chapters cover both the basic science and the clinical consequences of exposure to high altitude. Genetic, cellular, organ and whole body system responses to high altitudes are covered and chapters discuss these effects on a wide range of diseases. Expert authors provide insight into the care of patients with pre-existing medical conditions that fail in some cases to adapt as well as offer insights into how high altitude research can help critically ill patients. High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia is an important new volume that offers a window into greater understanding and more successful treatment of hypoxic human diseases.
Author : Knud Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351606182
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Adaptation and Well-Being written by Knud Larsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing how to live a long, happy and healthy life is a universal desire of humankind. Adaptation and Well-Being is a narrative of the human journey from the formation of identity and developing a healthy self-concept, to end of life issues of death and dying. Combining psychological, evolutionary and sociological approaches, the author interprets research from various stages of human development and adaptation. The focus of the book is on how to meet the challenges of life and achieve optimal health and well-being. It is valuable reading for students on life-span courses in counselling and therapy, developmental psychology and social gerontology, tertiary courses such as social work/ social welfare and nursing, and practitioners in these fields.
Author : J. Cullen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780898386066
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Breakdown in Human Adaptation to ‘Stress' written by J. Cullen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-01-12 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread interest in "stressful" aspects of contemporary society which contribute to its burden of illness and diseases (e.g. gastro intestinal, cardiovascular) has led to a large number of state ments and reports which relate the manifestations to a maladaptation of the individual. Furthermore, recent research suggests that under some condi tions stress may have a more generalized effect of decreasing the body's ability to combat destructive forces and expose it to a variety of diseases. Breakdown in adaptation occurs when an individual cannot cope with demands inherent in his environment. These may be due to an excessive mental or physical load, including factors of a social or psychological nature and task performance requirements ranging from those which are monotonous, simple and repetitive to complex, fast, decision-taking ones. Experience shows however that not all people placed under the same condi tions suffer similarly, and it follows that to the social and psychological environment should be added a genetic factor influencing, through the brain, the responses of individuals. It is clear that, besides human suffering, this "breakdown in adaptation" causes massive losses of revenue to industry and national health authorities. Thus a reduction in "stress", before "breakdown" occurs, or an improvement in coping with it would be very valuable.
Author : J. Cullen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780898386066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Breakdown in Human Adaptation to ‘Stress' written by J. Cullen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread interest in "stressful" aspects of contemporary society which contribute to its burden of illness and diseases (e.g. gastro intestinal, cardiovascular) has led to a large number of state ments and reports which relate the manifestations to a maladaptation of the individual. Furthermore, recent research suggests that under some condi tions stress may have a more generalized effect of decreasing the body's ability to combat destructive forces and expose it to a variety of diseases. Breakdown in adaptation occurs when an individual cannot cope with demands inherent in his environment. These may be due to an excessive mental or physical load, including factors of a social or psychological nature and task performance requirements ranging from those which are monotonous, simple and repetitive to complex, fast, decision-taking ones. Experience shows however that not all people placed under the same condi tions suffer similarly, and it follows that to the social and psychological environment should be added a genetic factor influencing, through the brain, the responses of individuals. It is clear that, besides human suffering, this "breakdown in adaptation" causes massive losses of revenue to industry and national health authorities. Thus a reduction in "stress", before "breakdown" occurs, or an improvement in coping with it would be very valuable.
Author : Daniel Lieberman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030774180X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Human Body written by Daniel Lieberman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years—with charts and line drawings throughout. “Fascinating.... A readable introduction to the whole field and great on the making of our physicality.”—Nature In this book, Daniel E. Lieberman illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes like the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions have impacted us physically. He shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning a paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease. And finally—provocatively—he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes even compel us to create a more salubrious environment and pursue better lifestyles.
Author : Charles Robert Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Instructor's Manual to Accompany Health, the Science of Human Adaptation written by Charles Robert Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
