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Weaning among West Indian Slaves: Historical and Bioanthropological Evidence from Barbados
The William and Mary Quarterly, 1986I N an innovative article of I978 Herbert S. Klein and Stanley L. Engerman, addressing the problem of fertility differentials between slave populations of the United States and the British Caribbean, emphasized that the significant difference between the two areas in rates of natural increase is largely explainable by the higher fertility of American ...
J S, Handler, R S, Corruccini
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Descent with Modification: Bioanthropological Identities in 2009
American Anthropologist, 2010ABSTRACT In the year of Darwin, what were the emerging themes and events that united disparate manifestations of bioanthropological identities? In this review, I draw from conference proceedings, the literature, and electronic social networking to assess six major developments in 2009: the bioanthropological legacy of Darwin on the 200th anniversary ...
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Race, Ethnicity, and Applied Bioanthropology
2008Introduction. Why Classify Race? (Claire C. Gordon National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Jan 1993, Vol. 13, No. 1: 1-6. Race, Ethnicity, and Human Engineering). The Impact of Racial Variation on Human Engineering Design Criteria (Robert A. Walker National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Jan 1993, Vol.
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Body Composition and Menopausal Transition: A Bioanthropological Perspective
2013Menopause is defined as the permanent cessation of menstruation due to depletion of the follicle pool. The menstrual cycle and changes in the cyclic pattern until a complete stop are orchestrated by gonadotrophins, steroids, and inhibins. The median age at natural menopause is around 50–51, for centuries and across populations. Menopause
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From Thing to Relation. On Bateson's Bioanthropology
2008The rapid increase in our technological mastering of more and more intimate and everyday aspects of life has created an acute sensitivity towards the huge lacunas left over by rational knowledge and technology. The present “turn towards the spiritual” has probably very much to do with such feelings of disturbance.
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A Bioanthropological Overview of Addiction
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1977D F, Jonas, A D, Jonas
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A proposed bioanthropological approach linking ritual and opiate addiction.
Addictive diseases, 1978This paper presents preliminary conjectures about possible neurobiological relationships among seemingly disparate phenomena: religious rituals, native curing therapies, and the pharmacodynamic, psychological, and sociocultural components of opiate addiction.
B W, Lex, N, Schor
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Bioanthropological Fundaments of Personalized Medicine Perception
2013Bioanthropological Fundaments of Personalized Medicine ...
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Secondary applications of bioanthropological studies on South American Andean mummies
1996Most bioanthropological studies are initially performed in pursuit of the answer to a specific question. Integration of the findings into an archaeological database, however, often provides new and unanticipated applications to other questions, broadening the range of information that can be extracted by the study of an ancient culture.
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