How Humans Adapt: A Biocultural Odyssey

How Humans Adapt: A Biocultural Odyssey

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How Humans Adapt collects the papers, commentaries, and discussions from the 1981 Smithsonian international symposium on human physical and cultural adaptations. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, How Humans Adapt sets out a complex picture of past human adaptations and speculates on how future adaptations may ensure the continued survival of the human race.

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Weight0.7803352 kg
Dimensions3.175 × 15.24 × 22.86 cm
Publication City/Country

USA

ISBN 10

0874747252

About The Author

Dr. Donald J. Ortner was a curator at the Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology. His research concentrated on evidence of disease, evolution of host-parasite relationships in infection, the human immune response to disease, and the significance of disease in human biocultural adaptation.

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