This is the new edition of a textbook dealing with the nature, origins, development, and causes of human variety, and with the biological organization of past and present human populations. The familiar structure of the previous editions has been slightly modified, and the book is divided into four sections. These cover some of the general principles of evolutionary theory; the history of Primates; the fossil evidence for human evolution; aspects of Primate behaviour; the principles of genetics as applied to population studies; systematic descriptions of human variation; the nature of human growth and factors which determine it; varieties of human physique and other constitutional traits; and the ecology of human populations, considered especially in terms of adaptation processes. Two new authors, Professor D. Pilbeam and Professor P.T. Baker, both in the United States, have contributed the parts on human evolution and human adaptability respectively to this substantially revised and rewritten edition.
Undergraduate students in courses on physical and biological anthropology; Human biology/Human biological sciences; Applied and human biology; Comparative physiology; Environmental physiology.
- ISBN10 0201140616
- ISBN13 9780201140613
- Publish Date December 1982 (first published December 1964)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Addison Wesley Higher Education (a Pearson Education company)
- Imprint Addison-Wesley
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English