Author: Michael A. LittlePublisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Ecology, Energetics, and Human Variability
Author: Michael A. LittlePublisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Human Variability and Plasticity
Author: C. G. N. Mascie-TaylorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521453992
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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.
The Ecosystem Concept In Anthropology
Author: Emilio F MoranPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000316300
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Critics of the ecosystem concept have noted the tendency of ecosystem-based studies to overemphasize energy flow, to rely on functionalist assumptions, to neglect historical and evolutionary factors, and to overlook the role of individuals as the locus of natural selection and decision making. In this volume, leading figures in the study of biological and human ecology evaluate these criticisms and propose ways to advance the state of knowledge in ecological research.
The Ecosystem Approach in Anthropology
Author: Emilio F. MoranPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472081028
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A reassessment of the ecosystem concept for anthropology
Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior
Author: Eric Alden SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351521314
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist
Human Ecology
Author: Holger SchutkowskiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540313915
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book explores the relationship between cultural strategies and their biological outcomes, combining for the first time an ecosystems approach with cultural anthropological, archaeological and evolutionary behavioural concepts. Beginning with resource use and food procurement behaviour, the text examines major subsistence modes, the circumstances and dynamics of large-scale subsistence change, the effect of social differentiation on resource use and the effects of subsistence behaviour on population development and regulation.
Author: Environment, Subsistence and System
Author: R. F. EllenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521287036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Human ecology is ultimately part of a general theory of society. This is the argument developed here by Roy Ellen, whose exploration of the interplay between social organization and ecology in small-scale subsistence systems has direct bearings both on the investigation of human environmental relations in general and on contemporary social theory. He argues that while ecological study of non-industrial societies cannot be elevated to the status of theory, domain or discipline, it can be represented as a single 'problematic' that historically has acquired some degree of autonomy and which continues to make a significant contribution to a wider anthropology. Dr Ellen introduces his subject matter through an extended and systematic discussion of some major frameworks developed within the last hundred years to examine and explain facets of the relationship between culture, social organization and the environment: determinism, possibilism, cultural ecology, systems theory and ideas derived from modern biology. He follows this with a detailed review and appraisal of important recent research involving the use of ecological models, methods and data. This original and innovative study of the pre-eminently social character of human ecological relations will be of considerable interest to all students and researchers concerned with understanding the nature of the relationship between human beings and their environments.
Human Impact on Ancient Environments
Author: Charles L. RedmanPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816519620
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Threats to biodiversity, food shortages, urban sprawl . . . lessons for environmental problems that confront us today may well be found in the past. The archaeological record contains hundreds of situations in which societies developed long-term sustainable relationships with their environments—and thousands in which the relationships were destructive. Charles Redman demonstrates that much can be learned from an improved understanding of peoples who, through seemingly rational decisions, degraded their environments and threatened their own survival. By discussing archaeological case studies from around the world—from the deforestation of the Mayan lowlands to soil erosion in ancient Greece to the almost total depletion of resources on Easter Island—Redman reveals the long-range coevolution of culture and environment and clearly shows the impact that ancient peoples had on their world. These case studies focus on four themes: habitat transformation and animal extinctions, agricultural practices, urban growth, and the forces that accompany complex society. They show that humankind's commitment to agriculture has had cultural consequences that have conditioned our perception of the environment and reveal that societies before European contact did not necessarily live the utopian existences that have been popularly supposed. Whereas most books on this topic tend to treat human societies as mere reactors to environmental stimuli, Redman's volume shows them to be active participants in complex and evolving ecological relationships. Human Impact on Ancient Environments demonstrates how archaeological research can provide unique insights into the nature of human stewardship of the Earth and can permanently alter the way we think about humans and the environment.
Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology
Author: Stanley J. UlijaszekPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521432955
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Looks at energy intake, expenditure and balance in traditional subsistence populations.