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past patterns, uncertain futures

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Human frontiers, environments, and disease

past patterns, uncertain futures

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English
Pages
413

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Human frontiers, environments, and disease: past patterns, uncertain futures
2001, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Disease patterns in human biohistory
Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance
Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection
Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving
The Third Horseman: food, farming and famines
The industrial era: the Fifth Horseman?
Longer lives and lower birth rates
Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey
Cities, social environments and synapses
Global environmental change: overstepping limits
Health and disease: an ecological perspective
Footprints to the future: treading less heavily.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-401) and index.

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Cambridge, New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
RA441 .M427 2001, RA441 .M427 2001eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 413 p. :
Number of pages
413

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15509310M
Internet Archive
humanfrontiersen00mcmi_555
ISBN 10
052180311X, 0521004942
LCCN
2001273445
OCLC/WorldCat
46599886, 51296922
Library Thing
287487
Goodreads
1857878

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