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Bioanthropological Research in Developing Countries
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1985In recent years the number of biological anthropologists involved in research in developing countries has increased. This upsurge of interest can be traced in part to an increased awareness of the problems faced by populations in these countries and to an increased realization that anthropologists are well equipped to address those problems. Though the
R Huss-Ashmore, F E Johnston
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Analyzing asymmetries and praxis in aDNA research: A bioanthropological critique
American Anthropologist, 2021AbstractRecent developments in molecular‐biology‐oriented studies regarding ancient DNA (aDNA) from human remains have brought into the contemporary discussions within archaeologists, bioanthropologists, and geneticists a set of disputes, tensions, and collaborations that need to be analyzed in practical and epistemological terms.
Bernardo Yáñez +2 more
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The Bioanthropological Context of Disease
American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 1993Apparent differences in susceptibility to disease continue to be major delineators between human groups. From the vantage of human evolutionary biology, disease is the biocultural product of the interactions of human biology, culture, and ecology.
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AIDS in Africa: A bioanthropological perspective
American Journal of Human Biology, 1990AbstractThe epidemiological characteristics of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Africa are reviewed. Infection rates with human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV‐1) and human immunodeficiency virus 2 (HIV‐2) vary across the continent of Africa with the highest infection rates occurring in East and Central Africa.
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Genetic landscape of the Hvar Island – highlight of a 50-year long bioanthropological research
Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 2022The paper presents an overview of the 50-year long bioanthropological research of the Hvar islanders and depicts the maternal and paternal genetic landscape of the Hvar population (mtDNA and NRY lineages) in more detail. MtDNA haplogroups were determined in 169 and NRY haplogroups in 407 autochthonous individuals from the Hvar Island.
Šarac, Jelena +7 more
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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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The Xavante in transition: health, ecology, and bioanthropology in central Brazil
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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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