ISBN-13: 9781493940363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 200 str.
ISBN-13: 9781493940363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 200 str.
conducted by biological anthropologists can enrich our understanding of variation in human health outcomes, particularly the concept of evolutionary trade-offs and the ensuing biological processes that can affect health status over the life course.
"The volume consists of 11 chapters that track human life history from parental experiences through juvenile development, maturation, and midlife to postreproductive age. ... This book will be used in graduate seminars in human biology and biological anthropology. ... this is a stimulating progress report on the current state of one of several useful perspectives on evolutionary medicine." (Stephen C. Stearns, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 92 (3), September, 2017)
"The book is a good introduction to a diverse set of active research threads in biological anthropology on evolution, health and disease. I expect it will be of interest to a graduate students and researchers in the fields of evolutionary medicine as well as health professionals with an interest in health and disease as an interaction between our evolutionary past and our present environments." (Daniel Hruschka, EvMed Review, evmedreview.com, January, 2017)This book examines ways in which research conducted by biological anthropologists can enrich our understanding of variation in human health outcomes. The book aims not only to showcase the perspective that biological anthropologists bring to the burgeoning field of evolutionary medicine, but to underscore the context of human life history -- especially the concept of evolutionary trade-offs and the ensuing biological processes that can affect health status over the life course. This dual emphasis on life history theory and life cycle biology will make for a valuable and unique, yet complementary, addition to books already available on the subject of evolution and health. The book consolidates diverse lines of research within the field of biological anthropology, stimulates new directions for future research, and facilitates communication between subdisciplines of human biology operating at the forefront of evolutionary medicine.
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