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Author : C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor,Gabriel W. Lasker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521331098
An examination of migration as an important cause of change in the genetic and demographic structure of human populations.
Author : A.J. Boyce
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000777543
Migration and Mobility (1984) examines the biological aspects of population movement, including genetic, anthropometric and psychological aspects. Other contributions deal with geographical and demographic features of human migration. Specific studies are described, and the theoretical framework used to describe population mobility is presented.
Author : Michael H. Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012868
Up-to-date and comprehensive, this book is an integration of the biological, cultural and historical dimensions of population movement.
Author : María de Lourdes Muñoz-Moreno,Michael H. Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197555422
Studying human migratory patterns can help us make sense of evolution, biology, linguistics, and so much more. Human Migration takes readers through population development and their respective origins to create a comprehensive picture of human migratory patterns. This book explores human migration as a major contributor to globalization that facilitates gene flow and the exchange of cultures and languages. It also traces evolutionary success of a hybrid population, the Black Caribs, after their forced relocation from St. Vincent Island to the Bay Islands and Central America. The volume is split into four sections: Theoretical Overview; Ancient DNA and Migration; Regional Migration; Culture and Migration: and Disease and Migration. This division allows for a seamless transition between a broad range of topics, including molecular genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, history, archaeology, demography, and genetic epidemiology. Assembled by volume editors and migration specialists María de Lourdes Muñoz-Moreno and Michael H. Crawford, Human Migration creates an opportunity for researchers, professionals, and students from different fields to review and discuss the most recent trends and challenges surrounding migration, genetics, and anthropology.
Author : Michael H. Crawford,Benjamin C. Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 1139840045
Up-to-date and comprehensive, this book is an integration of the biological, cultural and historical dimensions of population movement.
Author : Slawomir Koziel,Raja Chakraborty,Kaushik Bose
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biology
ISBN : 1634856449
This book outlays the possible influence of some important aspects of human migration and social mobility on the biological characters of human populations, including their health and well-being. It contains ten contributions from different researchers working in this area of research. The first chapter, written by Budnik and Henneberg, demonstrates the effect of social class and mobility on morphological characters of body size like height and body mass index (BMI) in a historical population of Poland. In Chapter Two, Chakraborty et al. shows that the migration of disadvantaged people to an adverse environment in an early period of growth and development may increase health risk in adulthood compared to those after completion of major physical growth period, or even compared to those who are born into that adverse environment. Chapter Three (by J. R. Ghosh) reveals the influence of educational and occupational positions on clinical hypertension among adult males from the eastern part of India. In the fourth chapter of this volume, S. Ghosh et al. attempts to find out the relationship between the socio-economic status of family and growth on height and weight demographics in school children aged 5-12 from Kolkata, India. Godina et al. in Chapter Five delineates the differences in various anthropometrical measurements in children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years across different types of schools, representing different social strata in Moscow. Chapter Six by Kaczmarek discusses the implications of rural to urban migration and its impact on womens health status in Poland. The next chapter by Krzyżanowska and C G Nicholas Mascie-Taylor discusses the impact of regional migration and social mobility on variation in adult height, weight and Body Mass Index, which is evidenced from a British cohort study. In Chapter Eight, Gomula and Koziel highlight from a study in Poland the effect of social mobility of fathers on maturity, measured by the age at menarche in their daughters. In the next chapter, Missoni and arac review dietary and lifestyle characteristics in the Eastern Adriatic Islands of Croatia in the backdrop of recent economic transition, urbanisation and migration. The tenth chapter contributed by Singh and Kirchengast compares demographic health related characteristics and reproductive behaviours between Punjabi women residing in Punjab and in Vienna, Austria. This book will be useful for researchers dealing with biological implications of human mobility. It may be of particular interest to human biologists, biological anthropologists, epidemiologists, demographers, economists and other researchers dealing with biological implications of human mobility.
Author : Gabriel Ward Lasker,C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521431883
This book is about the process of doing research, not about the results obtained. A number of researchers with experience working on problems including environmental stresses, population genetics, parasitic vectors and vital records describe obstacles encountered and successful strategies employed in their own studies and in those of others. One learns to do research by trial and error, but accounts such as these can supplement what one learns from mentors and fellow students.
Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780337531
In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves from their African homeland. Now an even more radical view has emerged, that the members of just one group are the ancestors of all non-Africans now alive, and that this group crossed the mouth of the Red Sea a mere 85,000 years ago. It means that not only is every person on the planet descended from one African 'Eve' but every non-African is related to a more recent Eve, from that original migratory group. This is a revolutionary new theory about our origins that is both scholarly and entertaining, a remarkable account of the kinship of all humans. Further details of the findings in this book are presented at www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/
Author : Michael A. Little,Jere D. Haas
Publisher : Research Monographs on Human P
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195050165
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 : Sara Stinson,Barry Bogin,Dennis H. O'Rourke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118108048
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 : Peter Todd Katzmarzy,Manuel J. Coelho e Silva
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789892605616
Author : Simon Slade Strickland,Prakash S. Shetty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521570433
Measures of biological variation have long been associated with many indices of social inequality. Data on health, nutrition, fertility, mortality, physical fitness, intellectual performance and a range of heritable biological markers show the ubiquity of such patterns across time, space and population. This volume reviews the current evidence for the strength of such linkages and the biological and social mechanisms that underlie them. A major theme is the relationship between the proximate determinants of these linkages and their longer-term significance for biologically selective social mobility. This book therefore addresses the question of how social stratification mediates processes of natural selection in human groups. Data like this pose difficult and sensitive issues for health policy and developments in this area and in eugenics are reviewed for industrialised and developing countries.
Author : Alan G. Fix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521592062
An integrative approach linking the causes of migration to genetic consequences for human evolution.
Author : Sonia Shah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781635571998
Finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of 2020 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Semifinalist in Science & Technology A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were historically porous. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, catapulting us into the highest reaches of the Himalayan mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, creating and disseminating the biological, cultural, and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis--it is the solution. Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
Author : Gabriel Ward Lasker
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814328407
One of the founders of modern human biology and physical anthropology, Gabriel W. Lasker holds a well-established place in the history of science. In a classic article published in Science in 1969, Lasker advanced the idea of plasticity, the process of human adaptation to stressful environments by a series of modifications to the body during the course of physical growth and development. This concept was a factor that led the scientific community to give up its reliance on the notion of genetically fixed racial types. As he documents the rapidly changing field of anthropology and some of its leading figures, Lasker gives his readers a peek inside the lives of people who have defined what it means to be human -- and one of those people is himself.
