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Pegasus Books
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2015.
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324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Overview: An innovative and illuminating look at how the evolution of the human species has been shaped by the world around us, from anatomy and physiology, to cultural diversity and population density. Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar latitudes? Why can only Japanese peoples digest seaweed? How are darker skin, sunlight, and fertility related? Did Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens ever...
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
♭2011
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1 videodisc (49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Likening the beauty and complexity of DNA to an epic poem, this program revolves around the idea that we all carry the story of life on Earth in our genes, and that the similarities between species may play a more significant role in that story than previously thought. A visit to Iceland's hot springs reveals heat-, acid-, and salt-resistant organisms called Archaea-primordial versions of which may have set the stage for multi-cellular life. Moving...
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Why do most people never have sex with close relatives? And why do they disapprove of other people doing so? Incest Avoidance and Incest Taboos investigates our human inclination to avoid incest and the powerful taboo against incest found in all societies. Both subjects stir strong feelings and vigorous arguments within and beyond academic circles. With great clarity, Wolf lays out the modern assumptions about both, concluding that all previous approaches...
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The primary focus of this book is the phenomenon of breastmilk insufficiency. As we might expect, the concept of breastmilk volume is as puzzling to breastfeeding mothers as it is to researchers, since the amount of breastmilk an infant consumes when breastfeeding is generally impossible for the breastfeeding mother to know exactly. So, the phenomenon of breastmilk insufficiency is basically the "perception" by the mother of not having enough breastmilk...
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Un jugador de futbol africano viaja a Europa con la promesa de un contrato en un equipo de primer nivel. Un laboratorio estudia cómo aumentar el rendimiento de los corredores de pista. Una ciudad invierte millones en su candidatura para ser sede de los Juegos Olímpicos. Una ex colonia derrota a su ex metrópoli en un partido de rugby y en el país se celebra como una fiesta nacional. Un atleta hace pública su homosexualidad y pierde todos sus sponsors.
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Estudiar las diferencias entre individuos y entre grupos, tanto contemporáneos como del pasado, es propio de la antropología. En la antropología biológica, estas diferencias se refieren tanto a las variaciones de la morfología y la anatomía de órganos y tejidos, como a las mutaciones de las características fisiológicas, genéticas y ecológicas distintivas de la población humana. De suerte que esta disciplina se encuentra en un lugar intermedio...
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Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and named one of the best science books of 2021 by Science News
“DeSilva takes us on a brilliant, fun, and scientifically deep stroll through history, anatomy, and evolution, in order to illustrate the powerful story of how a particular mode of movement helped make us one of the most wonderful, dangerous and fascinating species on Earth.”—Agustín
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Jeffrey Schwartz, professor of physical anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, ranges from digs in the Negev Desert through Africa and Europe to the local coroner's office to explain how interpretations of the past are made. What counts is the data and the context in which the evidence is analyzed. Along the way the author constructs a new hominid family tree to take account of...
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En 1989, Slobodan Milosevic, presidente de la Liga Comunista Yugoslava, implementó una reforma constitucional en la que privó del voto en el Congreso de la confederación a la república de Montenegro y a las provincias autónomas Kosovo y Vojvodina; en respuesta, las repúblicas de Eslovenia y Croacia se declararon independientes en 1991, seguidas de Macedonia y Bosnia-Herzegovina en 1992; el mismo año, en la provincia autónoma de Kosovo, los...
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A collection of the last forty years of research on Ohio's caves and rockshelters. Caves and Culture seeks to address a number of important problems, specifically the use of rockshelters by humans through time and transcontinental continuities. It presents new and updated, unreported research from such Ohio caves and rockshelters as Stow Rockshelter (Stow), Peters Cave (Ross County), Hendricks Cave (Wyandotte County), and Chesser Cave (Athens), among...
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Con la intención de reformular la medicina desde sus mismas bases, el médico alemán Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886-1957) propuso una Medicina Antropológica, que tuviera en cuenta al ser humano como un todo: cuerpo, alma y espíritu que, según pensaba, no son entidades separadas, sino distintos aspectos de un todo inseparable. Weizsäcker creía que era imprescindible tener en cuenta el entorno social de los pacientes, intensamente afectados por...
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“Engrossing … [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain.” —Wall Street Journal
“Fascinating—and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share.” —Scientific American
Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating...
“Fascinating—and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share.” —Scientific American
Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating...
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La capacidad artística define nuestra humanidad. Mientras que no hay duda de que la producción y el uso de imágenes visuales constituyen un carácter humano universal, la explicación de sus orígenes suscita mayor controversia. En este libro se aborda esta cuestión. No se trata solo de acercarse a la documentación arqueológica existente, sino de reflexionar sobre la definición de arte y su significación evolutiva. Las herramientas para abordar...
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“A personal yet magisterial account of the new brain-based approach to flavor perception . . . [a] panoramic view of science, culture, and behavior.”—Avery Gilbert, author of What the Nose Knows
Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the “human brain flavor system,” laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging...
Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the “human brain flavor system,” laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging...
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This is the story of life in Ireland — a story half a billion years in the making.
With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before the first people set foot here.
In Life in Ireland, Conor O'Brien guides the reader on a journey around the island to explore the history of natural life here, from the Jurassic Coast of Antrim to the...
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Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset occupies a familiar but exotic space in modern consciousness, created by two sometimes contradictory narrative arcs: the texts that women wrote regarding their own corseting experiences and...
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An "absorbing" look at how our species evolved, from the curator of human evolution at the American Museum of Natural History (Kirkus Reviews).
What makes us so different from those other animals? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what exactly are we? These questions are what make human evolution a subject of general fascination. Ian Tattersall, one of those rare scientists who is also a graceful writer, addresses them...
What makes us so different from those other animals? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what exactly are we? These questions are what make human evolution a subject of general fascination. Ian Tattersall, one of those rare scientists who is also a graceful writer, addresses them...
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"Honorable Mention for the 2012 PROSE Award in Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers" Peter S. Wells is professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His many books include Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered and The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (Princeton).
A revolutionary approach to how we view Europe's prehistoric culture
The peoples who inhabited Europe during...
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La maldad nos afecta a todos. Nadie sale indemne. Las víctimas padecen, los testigos, nos indignemos más o menos-, sufrimos sus consecuencias globales, y los victimarios han perdido, en mayor o menor medida, su conciencia moral y una parte de su humanidad, lo que no los hace menos humanos, pero sí más temibles.
No se trata de atormentarnos por las infinitas desgracias del mundo sin poder sentirnos felices ante las maldades conocidas a diario....
20) Human Races
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First published in 1961, this book provides a contemporary definition of race, the distinction between geographical, local and micro-races, as well as consideration of the major evolutionary mechanisms of race formation in man. Author Professor Stanley M. Garn was and remains a pivotal figure in the history of biological interpretations of race. He considered racial classification based on physical traits to be imprecise, and believed physical traits...
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