Human Adaptability

Author : Emilio F. Moran
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0786732539
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Adaptability written by Emilio F. Moran and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of environmental, physiological, behavioral, and cultural adaptive strategies available. Among the unique features that make Human Adaptability outstanding as both a textbook for students and a reference book for professionals are a complete discussion of the development of ecological anthropology and relevant research methods; the use of an ecosystem approach with emphasis on arctic, high altitude, arid land, grassland, tropical rain forest, and urban environments; an extensive and updated bibliography on ecological anthropology; and a comprehensive glossary of technical terms. Entirely new to the third edition are chapters on urban sustainability and methods of spatial analysis, with enhanced emphasis throughout on the role of gender in human-adaptability research and on global environmental change as it affects particular ecosystems. In addition, new sections in each chapter guide students to websites that provide access to relevant material, complement the text's coverage of biomes, and suggest ways to become active in environmental issues.

Author : George Serban
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468422383
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychopathology of Human Adaptation written by George Serban and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undoubtedly this symposium will prove to be an important landmark in the development of our understanding of the psychopathology of human adaptation in general, as well as of the general adaptation syndrome and stress in particular. It was organized to give an opportunity to an international group of experts on adaptation and stress research to present summaries of their research that could then later be exhaustively analyzed. The carefully structured program brings out three major aspects of adapta tion to stress in experimental animals and man. The first section deals with the neurophysiology of stress responses, placing major emphasis upon the neuroanatomical and neurochemical aspects involved. The second section is devoted to the psychology and psychopathology of adaptive learning, motivation, anxiety, and stress. The third section examines the role played by stress in the pathogenesis of mental diseases. Many of the relevant subjects receive particularly detailed attention. Among these, the following are especially noteworthy: The existence of reward and drive neurons. Constitutional differences in physiological adaptations to stress and d- tress. Motivation, mood, and mental events in relation to adaptive processes. Peripheral catecholamines and adaptation to underload and overload. Selective corticoid and catecholamine responses to various natural stimuli. The differentiation between eustress and distress. Resistance and overmotivation in achievement-oriented activity. The dynamics of conscience and contract psychology. Sources of stress in the drive for power. Advances in the therapy of psychiatric illness. The application of experimental studies on learning to the treatment of neuroses.

Author : A. Roberto Frisancho
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472095117
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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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 : Emilio F. Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000565939
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Adaptability written by Emilio F. Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of environmental, physiological, behavioral, and cultural adaptive strategies available. Among the unique features that make Human Adaptability outstanding as both a textbook for students and a reference book for professionals are a complete discussion of the development of ecological anthropology and relevant research methods; the use of an ecosystem approach with emphasis on arctic, high altitude, arid land, grassland, tropical rain forest, and urban environments; an extensive and updated bibliography on ecological anthropology; and a comprehensive glossary of technical terms. - There is enhanced emphasis throughout on the role of gender in human adaptability research and on global environmental change as it affects particular ecosystems. - Students are guided to websites that provide access to relevant material, complement the text's coverage of biomes, and suggest ways to become active in environmental issues. - The fourth edition includes updated material on climate change and environmental policy. This book is essential reading for students undertaking courses in environmental anthropology and human ecology.

Author : Charles Oxnard
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814496561
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Adaptability: Future Trends And Lessons From The Past, Perspective In Human Biology, Vol 3 written by Charles Oxnard and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes its subtitle from the theme of the ASHB meeting for 1996 “Human Adaptibility: Future Trends and Lessons from the Past”. The first paper is the annual conference lecture ‘Human Evolution Today: Which Way Next?’ delivered by Professor Maciej Hennenberg, the newly appointed Wood Jones Professor at the University of Adelaide. This is followed by the transcripts of two papers resulting from a debate on ‘Species and Human Evolution,’ also from the meeting. The first is ‘Species Concept in Palaeoanthropology’ by Colin Groves and the second, ‘The Problem of Species in Hominid Evolution’ by Maciej Hennenberg.There are also a series of individual papers. Two of these are shorter integrative pieces: ‘Philosophical Problems in Palaeoanthropology’ by Darren Curnoe, and ‘A Biological Basis for Generative Learning in Science’ by Lynette Schavieren and Mark Cosgrove.These are followed in turn by two proffered papers on specific problems: ‘Patterns of Morphological Discrimination in the Human Talus: a Consideration of the Case for Negative Function’, by Robert Kidd and Charles Oxnard, and ‘The Specific Status of a new Siwalik Sivapithecine Specimen’ by David Cameron, Rajeev Patnaik and Michelle Stevens.The final contribution is one of the longer integrative papers which has characterised each of the prior volumes: ‘The Interface of Function, Genes, Development and Evolution: Insights from Primate Morphometrics’ by Charles Oxnard.

Author : Emilio Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973330
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Adaptability, Student Economy Edition written by Emilio Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on mechanisms of human adaptability. It integrates findings from ecology, physiology, social anthropology, and geography around a set of problems or constraints posed by human habitats.

Author : Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383023794
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Adaptation written by Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines, from both biological and cultural perspectives, a particular phenomenon which determines the ways that human populations are organized and work. The book aims to present, in a specifically human context, the way the adaptation concept has been used and its development in different fields.

Author : Joseph Sidney Weiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Human Adaptability Proposals written by Joseph Sidney Weiner and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emilio Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429962258
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Adaptability, Student Economy Edition written by Emilio Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on mechanisms of human adaptability. It integrates findings from ecology, physiology, social anthropology, and geography around a set of problems or constraints posed by human habitats.

Author : Michael P. Muehlenbein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139789007
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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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.