Race and Human Diversity: A Biocultural Approach

ISBN-13: 9781138894495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Robert Anemone

Opis

This book is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. This second edition has been thoroughly revised, with new material on human genetic diversity, developmental plasticity and epigenetics.

Spis treści

1. Race and Biological Diversity in Humans  2. The History of the Race Concept  3. Charles Darwin and Evolutionary Theory  4. Genetics from Mendel to the Human Genome Project  5. Human Adaptation: Thermoregulation and Skin Color  6. Human Adaptation: Life at High Altitude  7. Nutrition, Health, and Growth  8. Race, Intelligence, and Eugenics  9. Race as a Cultural Construction