Human Variability and Plasticity

Name: Human Variability and Plasticity
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521453998
Price: 23600 KES
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ISBN: 9780521453998

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

ISBN-10 0521453992

ISBN-13 9780521453998

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 13th, 1995

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 511 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 15.50 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Anthropology Physical anthropology Human biology

KSh 23,600.00

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Most animals are capable of altering their biology or behaviour to respond plastically to changes in their environment. Humans are perhaps the most plastic of all species, and this book examines how human variability is affected by such factors as starvation, disease, child growth and migration.

Plasticity refers to the ability of many organisms to change their biology or behaviour to respond to changes in the environment, particularly when these are stressful. Humans are, perhaps, the most plastic of all species, and hence the most variable. This book reflects on the history of research in this area, state-of-the-art research methods and discoveries and needs for future research in human plasticity and variability. Topics discussed include child growth, starvation, disease of both young and old and the effects of migration, modernisation and other life-style changes. The book will be especially useful to biological anthropologists, human biologists and medical scientists interested in knowing more about how and why humans vary.

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