The economic growth and technological improvements have led to greater demand and development of machines and devices. Designs that once suited the western populations have been followed in India despite of the fact that there is considerable difference between the anthropometric data of Indians and westerners. Therefore there is a great need to generate an anthropometric data bank for different regions of Indian population in order to let the ergonomists develop user-friendly man-machine systems. The population and gender differences found in the anthropometric dimensions of the two...

Every habitat imposes a particular environmental impact on man, his domestic animals and crops. This impact varies widely since man makes a variety of adjustments to the challenges issuing from the physical and organic components, its living being changed to meet the demands of the organism. Thus the biodiversities in Body Size, Body Shape, Body Physique and Physiological variations occur in human inlieu with social activities and it is necessary in dealing with the demands of the environment. Present book deals with the Biological variability in two endogamous tribal groups of India, namely...