Race and Human Diversity - A Biocultural Approach

List of contents

1. Race and Biological Diversity in Humans 2. The History of the Race Concept 3. Charles Darwin and Evolutionary Theory 4. Genetics from Mendel to the Human Genome Project 5. Human Adaptation: Thermoregulation and Skin Color 6. Human Adaptation: Life at High Altitude 7. Nutrition, Health, and Growth 8. Race, Intelligence, and Eugenics 9. Race as a Cultural Construction

About the author

Robert L. Anemone is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA.

Summary

This book is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. This second edition has been thoroughly revised, with new material on human genetic diversity, developmental plasticity and epigenetics.

Product details

• Authors: Anemone, Robert Anemone, Robert (University of North Carolina Gree Anemone, Robert (University of North Carolina Greensboro Anemone, Robert L. Anemone, Robert L. (University of North Carolina G Anemone, Robert L. (University of North Carolina Greensboro Anemone, Anemone Robert L.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138894471
• ISBN: 978-1-138-89447-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, Ethnic Studies, Evolution, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Dietetics & nutrition, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Human biology, Dietetics and nutrition, Medical Anthropology, Evolution / Evolutionary biology