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Title Seasonality and human ecology : 35th symposium volume of the Society for the Study of Human Biology / edited by S.J. Ulijaszek and S.S. Strickland
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description xii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium series ; 35
Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 35
Contents 1. Introduction / S. J. Ulijaszek and S. S. Strickland -- 2. Seasonality and human biology / Francis E. Johnston -- 3. The influence of seasonality on hominid evolution / R. A. Foley -- 4. Environmental temperature and physiological function / M. A. Stroud -- 5. Physiological responses to variations in daylength / D. L. Ingram and M. J. Dauncey -- 6. Seasonality and fertility / Lyliane Rosetta -- 7. Seasonality of reproductive performance in rural Gambia / Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- 8. Seasonal effects on physical growth and development / T. J. Cole -- 9. Seasonal variation in the birth prevalence of polygenic multifactorial diseases / A. H. Bittles and L. Sanz -- 10. Environment, season and infection / Andrew Tomkins -- 11. Seasonal mortality in the elderly / K. J. Collins -- 12. Nutritional seasonality: the dimensions of the problem / Anna Ferro-Luzzi and Francesco Branca
13. Seasonal variation in nutritional status of adults and children in rural Senegal / Kirsten B. Simondon, Eric Benefice, Francois Simondon, Valerie Delaunay and Anouch Chahnazarian -- 14. Culture, seasons and stress in two traditional African cultures (Massa and Mussey) / Igor de Garine -- 15. Agriculture, modernisation and seasonality / Rebecca A. Huss-Ashmore -- 16. Seasonal organisation of work patterns / C. Panter-Brick
Analysis Humans Behaviour Effects of Environment
Humans Behaviour Effects of Environment
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online version of the print title
Mode of access: World Wide Web
System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader
Subject Chronobiology -- Congresses.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Congresses.
Human beings -- Influence of nature -- Congresses
Human biology -- Congresses.
Human ecology -- Congresses.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Congresses.
Seasons -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Strickland, S. S. (Simon Slade), 1956-
Ulijaszek, Stanley J.
LC no. 92043449
ISBN 0521431476