Man in adaptation
Subtitle: the biosocial background.
By: Edited by Yehudi A. Cohen.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Aldine Pub. Co.
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Anthropology; Human evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Issues and concepts in the study of adaptation. Genes, Culture, and Man / George W. Beadle -- Genetic Drift and Selection of Gene Systems / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- How to be Human / William W. Howells -- The Meaning of Fitness and the Future of Mam / P. B. Medawar -- Natural Selection in Man : Some Basic Problems / L. S. Penrose -- The Cultural Animal / Robin Fox -- Behavior and the Origin of Man / S. L. Washburn -- Incipient adaptations : monkeys and apes. Group Size and the Resource Unit / Hans Kummer -- Observations on the Ecology and Social Behavior of the Mountain Gorilla / George B. Schaller and John T. Emlen, Jr. -- The Behavior of Chimpanzees in Their Natural Habitat / Jane Van Lawick-Goodall -- Baboon Ecology and Human Evolution / Irven DeVore and Sherwood L. Washburn -- Social Units of a Free-Living Population of Hamadryas Baboons / Hans Kummer and Fred Kurt -- Kinship and Family in Monkeys, Apes and Man / V. Reynolds -- Status / Alison Jolly -- Explorations in the natural history of human adaptations. The Protocultural Foundations of Human Adaptation / A. Irving Hallowell -- The Evolution of the Human Hand / Bernard Campbell -- Man as Tool-Maker / Kenneth P. Oakley -- Genetics and the Races of Man / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Man for All Seasons / Bernard Campbell -- Hominid Adaptations / David Pilbeam -- Neanderthalers / Bjorn Kurten -- Adaptations in local populations. Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa / Frank B. Livingstone -- Adaptation and Variation among Hunter-Gatherers / I. S. Weiner -- The Effect of Chronic Exposure to Cold on Temperature and Blood Flow of the Hand / G. Malcolm Brown and John Page -- Human Adaptation to High Altitude / Paul T. Baker -- Mineral Metabolism and Behavior : Abnormalities and Calcium Homeostasis / Solomon H. Katz and Edward F. Foulks -- The Spearman and the Archer / Alice M. Brues -- Bushman Hunter-Gatherers : A Study in Human Ecology / Phillip V. Tobios -- Speech as a human adaptation. The Human Revolution / Charles F. Hockett and Robert Ascher -- The Capacity for Language Acquisition / Eric H. Lenneberg -- Functions of Speech : An Evolutionary Approach / Dell H. Hymes -- Urbanism, Migration, and Language / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Linguistic Relativity and Determinism / Roger Brown -- Signifying and Marking : Two Afro-American Speech Acts / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan -- Beginnings in cultural adaptation : archeological explorations. Food Production in Prehistoric Europe / H. T. Waterbolk -- Ecological Zones and Economic Stages / Grahame Clark -- Habitat, Culture, and Archeology / George I. Quimby -- Some Aspects of Prehistoric Society in East-Central Arizona / William A. Longacre -- Cultural Ecology of Nuclear Mesoamerica / William T. Sanders -- Farming Systems and Political Growth in Ancient Oaxaca / Kent V. Flannery, Anne V. T. Kirkby, Michael I. Kirkby, and.; title: Aubrey W. Williams, Jr. -- Irrigation in the Old Acolhua Domain, Mexico / Eric R. Wolf and Angel Palerm -- Investigating the Origins of Mesopotamian Civilization / Frank Hole -- The Study of Ancient Mesopotamian Settlement Patterns and the Problem of Urban Origins / Robert McC. Adams -- Early Civilizations, Subsistence, and Environment / Robert McC. Adams.