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Anthropology Today: Trends and Scope of Human Biology M. K. BHASIN (University of Delhi, Delhi, India) and Charles Susanne (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium) 2010 • Pages: 350 • Size: 180x240 • ISBN 81-85264-52-X • Binding: Hard • Price: US $ 60/- Rs.1950/ (Anthropologist Special Issue No. 6)
In general Human Biology is defined in text book as an interdisciplinary academic field of biology, biological anthropology, nutrition and medicine which focuses on humans; it is closely related to primate biology, and a number of other fields. Human biology research encompasses (almost similar to biological anthropology):
· Biological variation related to climate and other elements of the natural environment · Human growth and development · Genetic variation across human populations, present and past · Determinants, across populations, of risk for degenerative disease and infectious disease
There are twenty research papers in the present Special Volume which covers almost each aspect of Human Biology/ Biological Anthropology. The papers included in this volume are on chance and participant observation of human behaviour: lessons from field work with primates, race terminology, anthropometry (nutritional status by selected measurements and indices, childhood obesity, nutritional status of preschool children, variability in body composition, adaptation of high altitude dwellers, applications of kinanthropometry and assessment of physique and body composition components of sports persons) and genetics (Twins studies, natural selection and sex in human population, disease Thalassemia, eugenic concept of ancient Indians, human genetic variation, single cell gel electrophoresis/comet assay, population structure and biological and/or genetic composition of the Indian fishermen, HLA system, noncoding DNAs (ncDNAs), Chromosomal Q-Heterochromatin Regions in Populations and Human Adaptation and Morphology to Molecular Anthropology.
Looking at the range of the contributions by various renowned scholars in this volume, we hope that this may be a useful addition for those desirous of learning, teaching and doing research on the biology of the man.
CONTENTS
Preface iii
List of Contributors v
UNIT- I
1. Chance and Participant Observation of Human Behaviour: Lessons from Field Work with Primates By Ralph Tanner 1-6
2. “Race”: A Note on
Terminology 7-10 UNIT – II
3. Use and Interpretation
of Anthropometric Assessment of Growth and Body Composition 11-25
4. Prevalence of Childhood
Overweight and Obesity in India: A Systematic Review 27-32
5. Nutritional Status of
Preschool Children: A Major Global Health Challenge 33-42
6. Variability in Body Composition Characteristics in Two Cohorts of Slovak Women Aged 40 – 59 and 60 – 92 Years By Marta Cvíčelová, Petra Lukáčiková, Lucia Hornungová, Eva Neščáková, Zuzana Danková and Daniela Siváková 43-49
7. High Altitude
Adaptation: A Review 51-58
8. Kinanthropometric
Research and Its Applications: A New Scientific Approach 59-67
9. Anthropometry and Body
Composition in Sports 69-81
UNIT – III
10. Various Types of
Twins: Rare and Unreported 83-89
11. A Synthesis of Natural
Selection and Female Sex in Human Population 91-94
12. Psychosocial
Stressors: Let’s Face Them 95-100
13. Studies on Eugenic
Concept of Ancient Indians: A Review from Manusmruti 101-123
14. Human Genetic
Variation Studies: Background; Rationale and Achievements 125-135
15. The Single Cell Gel
Electrophoresis Assay: Applications in Diseased Individuals and Population
Monitoring Studies 137-163
16. Population Structure and Genetic Perspectives on the Indian Fishermen
165-181
17. The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) System: A Review By U. Shankarkumar, A. Pawar, J.P. Devaraj, K. Bhupali and K.Ghosh 183-197
18. Noncoding Dnas in
Development and Evolution 199-224
19. Chromosomal Q-Heterochromatin Regions in Populations and Human Adaptation By Abyt I. Ibraimov 225-250
20. Morphopological to Molecular Anthropology: Genetics Studies of Castes and Tribes of India By M.K. Bhasin 251-336
Index 337-341
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