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This special symposium volume of the SSHB explores the biological
effects of human isolation and migration, and how the situations to
which they give rise help to elucidate a variety of biological
problems, ranging from evolutionary change to disease etiology. The
majority of the case studies presented here are by Asian
investigators, and provide a uniquely accessible source of
information. Besides documenting the results, the book illustrates
the different methods employed in such studies. It will be
invaluable to those contemplating similar investigations elsewhere,
and will be of interest to researchers in a range of disciplines
including epidemiology, clinical medicine, demography,
anthropology, genetics and evolutionary biology.
Working capacity is the physiological key to understanding man's
ability, in technically less advanced communities, to exploit his
environment, and hence to understanding his role in the ecological
balance. In this volume the knowledge of working capacity in
tropical populations is reviewed in a series of illustrative
papers. Topics cover the measurement of working capacity in
populations: the functional consequences of malnutrition; growth,
size and muscular efficiency; ethnic differences in working
capacity; energy; expenditure and endemic disease; and energy flow
in tropical ecosystems. These papers and their ensuing discussions
lead to a series of recommendations on studies to be incorporated
in the Decade of the Tropics research programme of the
International Union of Biological Sciences.
This volume considers the genetic variability of human populations,
particularly in the tropics: its origins and maintenance, and its
contribution to the phenotypic variability of complex characters.
The first section deals with the ways of analysing genetic
variation and provides a valuable review of relevant developments
in molecular biology. The origin and maintenance of genetic
diversity is considered in the second section with data presented
for Pacific, African, Asian and Central American populations. The
final section concerns characters in which the genetic contribution
to variability is complex and shows how such characters may be used
to elucidate biological problems of affinity and differentiation,
of adaptation and survival. Published as part of the Decade of the
Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological
Sciences, this volume will be of particular interest to human
geneticists, physical and biological anthropologists.
This special symposium volume of the SSHB explores the biological
effects of human isolation and migration, and how the situations to
which they give rise help to elucidate a variety of biological
problems, ranging from evolutionary change to disease etiology. The
majority of the case studies presented here are by Asian
investigators, and provide a uniquely accessible source of
information. Besides documenting the results, the book illustrates
the different methods employed in such studies. It will be
invaluable to those contemplating similar investigations elsewhere,
and will be of interest to researchers in a range of disciplines
including epidemiology, clinical medicine, demography,
anthropology, genetics and evolutionary biology.
Working capacity is the physiological key to understanding man's
ability, in technically less advanced communities, to exploit his
environment, and hence to understanding his role in the ecological
balance. In this volume the present state of knowledge of working
capacity in tropical populations is reviewed in a series of
illustrative papers. Topics cover the measurement of working
capacity in populations: the functional consequences of
malnutrition; growth, size and muscular efficiency; ethnic
differences in working capacity; energy; expenditure and endemic
disease; and energy flow in tropical ecosystems. These papers and
their ensuing discussions lead to a series of recommendations on
studies to be incorporated in the Decade of the Tropics research
programme of the International Union of Biological Sciences.
This volume considers the genetic variability of human populations,
particularly in the tropics: its origins and maintenance, and its
contribution to the phenotypic variability of complex characters.
The first section deals with the ways of analysing genetic
variation and provides a valuable review of relevant developments
in molecular biology. The origin and maintenance of genetic
diversity is considered in the second section with data presented
for Pacific, African, Asian and Central American populations. The
final section concerns characters in which the genetic contribution
to variability is complex and shows how such characters may be used
to elucidate biological problems of affinity and differentiation,
of adaptation and survival. Published as part of the Decade of the
Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological
Sciences, this volume will be of particular interest to human
geneticists, physical and biological anthropologists.
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