Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 250 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511600517
Series Statement:
Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series 35
Content:
Seasonality has effects on a wide range of human functions and activities, and is important in the understanding of human-environment relationships. In this volume, distinguished contributors including human biologists, anthropologists, physiologists and nutritionists consider many of the different ways in which seasonality influences human biology and behaviour. Topics addressed include the influence of seasonality on hominid evolution, seasonal climatic effects on human physiology, fertility and physical growth, seasonality in morbidity, mortality and nutritional state, and seasonal factors in food production, modernization and work organization in Third World economies. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Introduction
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Seasonal mortality in the elderly
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Seasonality and human biology
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Influence of seasonality on hominid evolution
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Environmental temperature and physiological function
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Physiological responses to variations in daylength
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Seasonality and fertility
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Seasonality of reproductive performance in rural Gambia
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Seasonal effects on physical growth and development
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Seasonal variation in the birth prevalence of polygenic multifactorial diseases
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Environment, season and infection
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Nutritonal seasonality: the dimensions of the problem
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Seasonal variation in nutritional status of adults and children in rural Senegal
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Culture, seasons and stress in two traditional African cultures (Massa and Mussey)
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Agriculture, modernisation and seasonality
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Seasonal organisation of work patterns
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521431477
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521103046
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521431477
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511600517
