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Human Variation and Origins: An Introduction to Human Biology and Evolution

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Readings from Scientific AmericanPublication details: USA W. H. Freeman Company 1967Description: 297 illustrations (some color), maps, portraits 28 cmISBN:
  • 0716709686
  • 9780716709688
Patent information: 1949Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Human variation and origins.DDC classification:
  • 573
LOC classification:
  • QH368 .H937
NLM classification:
  • QH 367
Contents:
I. Processes and history -- Introduction: the development of concepts in the study of human variation -- 1. The genetic basis of evolution / Dobzhansky -- 2. Charles Lyell / Eiseley -- 3. Charles Darwin / Eiseley -- 4. Crises in the history of life / Newell -- II. Intraindividual variation -- Introduction: structure and function -- 5. The living cell / Brachet -- 6. Mammalian eggs in the laboratory / Edwards -- 7. The genetic code / Crick -- 8. How do cells differentiate? / Waddington -- 9. The skin / Montagna -- 10. Electrical effects in bone / Bassett -- 11. The antiquity of human walking / Napier -- 12. Human growth / Gray -- III. Intrapopulation variation -- Introduction: genetic mechanisms and evolutionary adaptations -- 13. Ionizing radiation and evolution / Crow -- 14. The evolution of the hand / Napier -- 15. Adaptations to cold / Irving -- 16. Tools and human evolution / Washburn -- 17. The origin of speech / Hockett -- 18. Learning to think / Harlow and Harlow -- 19. Sickle cells and evolution / Allison -- 20. The genetics of the Dunkers / Glass -- IV. Interpopulation variation -- Introduction: population history and origins -- 21. The distribution of man / Howells -- 22. The lesson of the Pygmies / Turnbull -- 23. World population / Huxley -- 24. The origins of new world civilization / MacNeish -- 25. The prehistory of the Australian Aborigine / Mulvaney -- 26. Homo erectus / Howells -- 27. The early relatives of man / Simons.
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At head of title: Readings from Scientific American.

I. Processes and history -- Introduction: the development of concepts in the study of human variation -- 1. The genetic basis of evolution / Dobzhansky -- 2. Charles Lyell / Eiseley -- 3. Charles Darwin / Eiseley -- 4. Crises in the history of life / Newell -- II. Intraindividual variation -- Introduction: structure and function -- 5. The living cell / Brachet -- 6. Mammalian eggs in the laboratory / Edwards -- 7. The genetic code / Crick -- 8. How do cells differentiate? / Waddington -- 9. The skin / Montagna -- 10. Electrical effects in bone / Bassett -- 11. The antiquity of human walking / Napier -- 12. Human growth / Gray -- III. Intrapopulation variation -- Introduction: genetic mechanisms and evolutionary adaptations -- 13. Ionizing radiation and evolution / Crow -- 14. The evolution of the hand / Napier -- 15. Adaptations to cold / Irving -- 16. Tools and human evolution / Washburn -- 17. The origin of speech / Hockett -- 18. Learning to think / Harlow and Harlow -- 19. Sickle cells and evolution / Allison -- 20. The genetics of the Dunkers / Glass -- IV. Interpopulation variation -- Introduction: population history and origins -- 21. The distribution of man / Howells -- 22. The lesson of the Pygmies / Turnbull -- 23. World population / Huxley -- 24. The origins of new world civilization / MacNeish -- 25. The prehistory of the Australian Aborigine / Mulvaney -- 26. Homo erectus / Howells -- 27. The early relatives of man / Simons.

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