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The growth of humanity / Barry A. Bogin.
LIBRA GN62.9 .B62 2001
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Penn Museum Library GN62.9 .B62 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bogin, Barry.
- Series:
- Foundations of human biology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human growth.
- Population.
- Physical anthropology.
- Demographic anthropology.
- Infants--Growth.
- Infants.
- Youth--Growth.
- Youth.
- Life cycles (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Wiley-Liss, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Of Populations and People 1
- Life History: The Link between Demography and Growth 5
- Why Do Anthropologists Study Human Growth and Demography? 6
- Anthropological Perspective on HIV/AIDS 8
- Biocultural Model of HIV/AIDS 11
- Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS 16
- Economic Effects of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic 18
- Impact of HIV/AIDS on Family Structure and Human Development 18
- Integrated Study of Human Demography and Growth 20
- Box 1.1. "HIV/AIDS Is Among Us" 12
- Box 2.2. Human Growth in Biocultural Perspective 13
- 2 How Populations Grow: History, Methods, and Principles of Demography 22
- Population Problem 22
- Was There a Population Problem? 25
- How Many People? 25
- Human Population Size Today 26
- Population Census 27
- Using Census Data: Defining the Population 29
- Using Census Data: The Life Table 31
- Medical Example of the Use of Life Tables 36
- Life Table Analsis of Growth and Development 37
- From Malthus to Gompertz 41
- Fall and Rise of Biodemography 42
- Fertility and Mortality 43
- Population Pyramids 49
- Population Regulation: Limits to Population Growth 51
- Biocultural Regulation of Human Fertility 52
- Box 2.1. Questions Found on a Modern Census 30
- Box 2.2. Social Regulation of Fertility in the Mormon Church 61
- 3 How People Grow 63
- Basic Principles of Human Growth and Development 64
- Stages in the Life Cycle 64
- 4 Evolution of the Human Life History 98
- Human Life Cycle 99
- Evolution of Human Life History: Growth and Demography 102
- Evolution of Ontogeny 103
- Case for De Novo Childhood 106
- Human Childhood 107
- How and When Did Human Childhood Evolve? 113
- Who Benefits from Childhood? 119
- Summary of Childhood 128
- When and Why Did Adolescence Evolve? 128
- Why Do Girls Have Adolescence, or Why Wait So Long to Have a Baby? 135
- Why Do Boys Have Adolescence? 138
- Summary of Adolescence 140
- Postreproductive Life Stage 140
- Box 4.1. The Evolutionary Psychology of Childhood 123
- 5 Food, Demography, and Growth 143
- Food for the Body and the Spirit 144
- Nutrients Versus Food 147
- Sources of Knowledge 150
- Human Diet Evolution 152
- Studies of Living Hunters and Gatherers 158
- Summary of Evidence for the Evolution of Human Nutrition 163
- Diet, Agricultural Development, and Demography 163
- Conquest, Food, and Health 166
- "Man or Maize": Which Came First? 169
- Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Further Decline of Human Health 172
- Demographic Transition 175
- Progress? 178
- Plagues and Progress 180
- Diet and the Diseases of Modern Life 181
- Electronic Revolution 186
- Box 5.1. Conception of the People of Corn 144
- Box 5.2. Classification of Human Societies 145
- 6 Migration and Human Health 189
- Rural-to-Urban Migration 191
- Biology of the City 193
- Urban Migration Since World War II 199
- Are Cities Good or Bad for People? 200
- Biocultural Research on Urban Adaptation 203
- Growth and Development 203
- Fertility and Demography 214
- Three Case Studies of Migrant Fertility 216
- Migrant Selection? 217
- Health Status and Mortality 218
- The U-Curve Model 220
- Effects of Migration on the Remaining Population 222
- Summary: Migration and Adaptation to the City 225
- Biocultural View of Migration 227
- Box 6.1. Cape Verde: Migration and Morabeza 196
- Box 6.2. Migrations Caused by Droughts and Consequent Floods of Famine: Case of the Cape Verde Islands 210
- Box 6.3. Changing Family Structure in Cape Verde: Some Effects of Emigration on the Remaining Population 222
- 7 Growth of Humanity 229
- Population Variation in Body Size 230
- Population Variation in Demography 239
- Mirror of Society 240
- Evolutionary Background to Growth and Population Structure 242
- Smaller Body Size Is Not a Genetic Adaptation 244
- Plasticity in Growth and Demography 244
- 8,000 Years of Human Growth in Latin America 245
- Anthropometric History 250
- Irish Famine 251
- Desertification of Rural Portugal 259
- Box 7.1. Giants in the Americas? 232
- Box 7.2. Biology of Potato Blight 253
- 8 The Aging of Humanity 263
- Japan: The Aging Sun 265
- Biocultural Aging 268
- Menopause, Aging, and Sexism 269
- The Valuable Grandmother, or Could Menopause Evolve? 270
- Wither Humanity? 275
- Healthy People, Healthy Populations 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0471354481
- OCLC:
- 44926882
- Online:
- Table of Contents
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