Biohistory

Author : Jim Penman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1443871656

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Biohistory by Jim Penman Pdf

Biohistory is a revolutionary new theory that explores the biological and behavioural underpinnings of social change, including the rise and fall of civilisations. Informed by significant research into the physiological basis of behaviour conducted by author Dr Jim Penman and a team of scientists at RMIT University and the Florey Institute in Melbourne, Australia, Biohistory examines how a complex interplay between culture and biology has shaped civilisations from the Roman Empire to the modern West. Penman proposes that historical changes are driven by changes in the prevailing temperament of populations, based on physiological mechanisms that adapt animal behaviour to changing food conditions. It details the history of human society by mapping the effects of these epigenetic changes on cultures, and on historical tipping points including wars and revolutions. It shows how laboratory studies can be used to explain broad social and economic changes, including the fortunes of entire civilizations. The authors shocking conclusion is that the West is in terminal and inevitable decline, and that its only hope may lie with the biological sciences. Drawing on the disciplines of history, biology, anthropology and economics, Biohistory is the first theory of society that can be tested with some rigour in the laboratory. It explains how environment, cultural values and childrearing patterns determine whether societies prosper or collapse, and how social change can be both predictedand potentially modifiedthrough biochemistry.

Author : Christopher M. Stojanowski,William N. Duncan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107073548

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Studies in Forensic Biohistory by Christopher M. Stojanowski,William N. Duncan Pdf

Highlights the role of anthropologists in revealing the histories and contemporary social facts that are reflected in dead bodies.

Author : Francis William Zettler
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781561647347

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Biohistory of Alachua County, Florida by Francis William Zettler Pdf

Biohistory includes the history of plants and animals as well as people. This fascinating biohistory of Alachua County, prehistoric to present-day, is a microcosm of the biohistory of Florida itself, told with verve and clarity like an adventure unfolding over millions of years. Alachua County sits in north central Florida, roughly halfway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Its rich fossil record reveals that shovel-tusked elephants, 8-ton ground sloths, giant beavers, and tiny horses once roamed the county's 969 square miles. Its human history is the story of people who arrived some 12,000 years ago after a journey that took them from Asia across the Bering land bridge and then south across the North American continent. Today, Alachua County retains its human and ecological diversity. The University of Florida in Gainesville draws students and faculty from throughout the U.S. and around the world while small towns retain their 'old Florida' ambience. Natural areas such as the limestone sinkhole called Devil's Millhopper and the vast marshy grassland that is Paynes Prairie are home to a dazzling array of flora and fauna. This fascinating 'biohistory' of Alachua County, prehistoric to present-day, is a microcosm of the history of Florida itself, told with verve and clarity like an adventure unfolding over millions of years.

Author : Stephen Vickers Boyden
Publisher : Parthenon Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015021561710

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Biohistory by Stephen Vickers Boyden Pdf

The main part of the book is concerned with the impacts of culture-induced human activities on natural systems, from the emergence of humankind in evolution to the present day.

Author : Lesley M. Rankin-Hill
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004103856

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A Biohistory of 19th-Century Afro-Americans by Lesley M. Rankin-Hill Pdf

The First African Baptists Church (FABC) remains were accidentally discovered and eventually excavated during the 1980s in Philadelphia. The history and artifacts of the church and cemetery, active from 1823 to 1850, provide a glimpse into the life of the poorest segment of Philadelphia society. Who these people were and the conditions of their lives is the focus of this book. Using census data, skeletal remains, and church documents, Dr. Rankin-Hill recreates the life of this community and compares their conditions to that of other Afro-Americans living in the United States.

Author : Pieter Smit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Botanists
ISBN : UOM:39015019698383

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Essays in Biohistory by Pieter Smit Pdf

Author : Leonard Lawlor,John Nale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521119219

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon by Leonard Lawlor,John Nale Pdf

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy, and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science, and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.

Author : Simron Jit Singh,Helmut Haberl,Marian Chertow,Michael Mirtl,Martin Schmid
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400711778

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Long Term Socio-Ecological Research by Simron Jit Singh,Helmut Haberl,Marian Chertow,Michael Mirtl,Martin Schmid Pdf

The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses its current state, which has evolved to recognize the value of formulating solutions to the host of ecological threats we face. Through many case studies, this book gives the reader a greater sense of where we are and what still needs to be done to engage in and make meaning from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.

Author : Molly K. Zuckerman,Debra L. Martin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118962930

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New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology by Molly K. Zuckerman,Debra L. Martin Pdf

Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The biocultural approach emerged in anthropology in the 1960s, matured in the 1980s, and is now one of the dominant paradigms in anthropology, particularly within biological anthropology. This volume gathers contributions from the top scholars in biocultural anthropology focusing on six of the most influential, productive, and important areas of research within biocultural anthropology. These are: critical and synthetic approaches within biocultural anthropology; biocultural approaches to identity, including race and racism; health, diet, and nutrition; infectious disease from antiquity to the modern era; epidemiologic transitions and population dynamics; and inequality and violence studies. Focusing on these six major areas of burgeoning research within biocultural anthropology makes the proposed volume timely, widely applicable and useful to scholars engaging in biocultural research and students interested in the biocultural approach, and synthetic in its coverage of contemporary scholarship in biocultural anthropology. Students will be able to grasp the history of the biocultural approach, and how that history continues to impact scholarship, as well as the scope of current research within the approach, and the foci of biocultural research into the future. Importantly, contributions in the text follow a consistent format of a discussion of method and theory relative to a particular aspect of the above six topics, followed by a case study applying the surveyed method and theory. This structure will engage students by providing real world examples of anthropological issues, and demonstrating how biocultural method and theory can be used to elucidate and resolve them. Key features include: Contributions which span the breadth of approaches and topics within biological anthropology from the insights granted through work with ancient human remains to those granted through collaborative research with contemporary peoples. Comprehensive treatment of diverse topics within biocultural anthropology, from human variation and adaptability to recent disease pandemics, the embodied effects of race and racism, industrialization and the rise of allergy and autoimmune diseases, and the sociopolitics of slavery and torture. Contributions and sections united by thematically cohesive threads. Clear, jargon-free language in a text that is designed to be pedagogically flexible: contributions are written to be both understandable and engaging to both undergraduate and graduate students. Provision of synthetic theory, method and data in each contribution. The use of richly contextualized case studies driven by empirical data. Through case-study driven contributions, each chapter demonstrates how biocultural approaches can be used to better understand and resolve real-world problems and anthropological issues.

Author : Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137512352

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Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina by Brenda Dixon Gottschild Pdf

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.

Author : Stephen Vickers Boyden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:49015000904434

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Western Civilization in Biological Perspective by Stephen Vickers Boyden Pdf

The author explores the patterns of interplay between the biological and cultural processes in human affairs, beginning with the emergence in evolution of "homo sapiens" and carries his survey through the early farming and urban phases of human existence up to the present day.

Author : Stephen Boyden
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781760460518

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The Bionarrative by Stephen Boyden Pdf

This book is for the general reader interested in the human place in nature and the future of civilisation. It is based on the biohistorical approach to the study of human situations. This approach recognises human culture as a new and extremely important force in the biosphere. The book discusses the evolution of life and the essential ecological processes on which all life, including human civilisation, depend. It describes the conditions of life and ecology of humans in the four ecological phases in human history, with emphasis on the impacts of human culture on biological systems. It explains how, as cultures evolved, they often came to embrace not only factual information of good practical value, but also assumptions that are sheer nonsense, sometimes leading to activities that caused unnecessary human distress or damage to local ecosystems. These are examples of cultural maladaptation. There have been countless instances of cultural maladaptation in human history. The days of the fourth ecological phase of human history, the Exponential Phase, are numbered. Cultural maladaptations are now on a massive scale, and business as usual will inevitably lead to the ecological collapse of civilisation. The only hope for the survival of civilisation lies in radical changes in the worldviews and priorities of the prevailing cultures of the world, leading to a fifth ecological phase — a phase in which human society is truly sensitive to, in tune with and respectful of the processes of life. This is called a biosensitive society. The book concludes with discussion on the essential characteristics of a biosensitive society and on the means by which the necessary cultural transformation might come about.

Author : Jim Penman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Pub
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1443871303

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Biohistory by Jim Penman Pdf

Western civilisation is on a path to destruction. In coming decades, economies will shrink, democracy will retreat and nations crumble. The long-term result will be grinding poverty, superstition and disease. This isn't scaremongering - it is science. In Biohistory: The Decline and Fall of the West, Dr Jim Penman, PhD, details a revolutionary new theory about why civilizations collapse. For the first time, Penman directly links human biology with the rise and fall of civilisations a cataclysmic relationship that brought the Romans, the ancient Greeks and all other Empires to their knees. Based on pioneering scientific research, Penman reveals the deadly, invisible forces at play across human and animal history and why the West will be the next victim. Biohistory makes use of the latest findings in epigenetics, the study of how the environment affects our genes. Presented in easy-to-digest language, it draws on history, biology, anthropology and economics to explain the real drivers of social change and how evolutionary mechanisms designed to adapt animal social behaviour to changing food conditions determine the fate of civilisation. The West's only hope of avoiding catastrophe lies with the biological sciences, but is it already too late to change the course of history?

Author : Bethany L. Turner,Haagen D. Klaus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030426149

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Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru by Bethany L. Turner,Haagen D. Klaus Pdf

This book synthesizes in-depth bioarchaeological research into diet, subsistence regimes, and nutrition—and corresponding insights into adaptation, suffering, and resilience—among indigenous north-coastal Peruvian communities from early agricultural through European colonial periods. The Spanish invasion and colonization of Andean South America left millions dead, landscapes transformed, and traditional ways of life annihilated. However, the nature and magnitude of these changes were far from uniform. By the time the Spanish arrived, over four millennia of complex societies had emerged and fallen, and in the 16th century, the region was home to the largest and most expansive indigenous empire in the western hemisphere. Decades of Andean archaeological and ethnohistorical research have explored the incredible sophistication of regional agropastoral traditions, the importance of food and feasting as mechanisms of control, and the significance of maritime economies in the consolidation of complex polities. Bioarchaeology is particularly useful in studying these processes. Beyond identifying what resources were available and how they were prepared, bioarchaeological methods provide unique opportunities and humanized perspectives to reconstruct what individuals actually ate, and whether their diets changed within their own lifespans.

Author : Kelly J. Knudson,Christopher M. Stojanowski
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401803

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Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited by Kelly J. Knudson,Christopher M. Stojanowski Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title This volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Building on the field-defining research in Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas, contributors expand the scope of the subject regionally, theoretically, and methodologically. This collection moves beyond the previous focus on single aspects of identity by demonstrating multi-scalar approaches and by explicitly addressing intersectionality in the archaeological record. Case studies in this volume come from both New World and Old World settings, including sites in North America, South America, Asia, and the Middle East. The communities investigated range from early Holocene hunter-gatherers to nineteenth-century urban poor. Contributors broaden the concept of identity to include disability or health status, age, social class, religion, occupation, and communal and familial identities. In addition to combining bioarchaeological data with oral history and material artifacts, they use new methods including social network analysis and more humanistic approaches in osteobiography. Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited offers updated ways of conceptualizing identity across time and space. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen