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Genes, culture, and human evolution : a synthesis / Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin ; with an introduction by L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
LIBRA GN289 .S76 2007
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Penn Museum Library GN289 .S76 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stone, Linda, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human population genetics.
- Human evolution.
- Evolutionary genetics.
- Paleoanthropology.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 314 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.
- Summary:
- "This book will be useful for all physicians involved in cardiac imaging, whether they are in radiology, nuclear medicine, or cardiology, and should be mandatory for physicians engaged in gated cardiac SPECT. It is recommended without reservation." - from a review of the first edition in Radiology With gated cardiac SPECT now firmly established for the management of the cardiac patient, Drs. Germano and Berman bring you completely up to date with the multiple clinical applications as well as the recent technical developments of the modality. Clinical Gated Cardiac SPECT, Second Edition: - -covers all the available protocols -describes a systematic approach for interpretation and reporting -provides guidance for the recognition of artifacts -includes flowcharts on the management of patients The relationship of gated cardiac SPECT to PET, MRI and CT is explored in separate chapters devoted to each modality. This book is essential reading for all clinicians involved in cardiac imaging.
- Contents:
- Genetic and cultural theory : a brief overview
- Human descent and paleoanthropology
- Foundations of classical and molecular genetics
- Genetics as a key to human origins and prehistory
- Fundamentals of human evolution : mutation and natural selection
- Fundamentals of human evolution : drift, migration, and quantitative analysis of human genetic diversity
- Cultural evolution
- Geography of human genes and correlation with languages
- The prehistory of human genes
- Voyages : prehistoric human expansions
- The neolithic transition in Europe and the peopling of the Americas
- Genes, kinship, and human identity
- Cultural clines, clades, cycles, and waves
- Genes and culture in medicine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-297) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1405150890
- 1405131667
- 9781405150 897
- 9781405131 667
- OCLC:
- 64208094
- Publisher Number:
- 9781405150897
- 9781405131667
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