Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease
Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures
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ISBN-13:
9780521004947
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.04.2006
Seiten:
432
Autor:
Tony McMichael
Gewicht:
741 g
Format:
244x170x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Charting the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography, Anthony McMichael highlights the changing survival patterns of our ancient ancestors, who roamed the African savannas several million years ago, to today's populous, industrialized, and globalized world.
Preface; 1. Disease patterns in human biohistory; 2. Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance; 3. Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection; 4. Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving; 5. The third horseman: food, farming and famines; 6. The industrial era: the fifth horseman?; 7. Longer lives and lower birth rates; 8. Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey; 9. Cities, social environments and synapses; 10. Global environmental change: overstepping limits; 11. Health and disease: an ecological perspective; 12. Footprints to the future: treading less heavily; Notes; Index.
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