文档介绍：HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Wide-ranging and inclusive, this text provides an invaluable review of an expansive
selection of topics in human evolution, variation, and adaptability for professionals
and students in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences, and
psychology. The chapters anized around four broad themes, with sections
devoted to phenotypic and ic variation within and between human populations,
reproductive physiology and behavior, growth and development, and human health
from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. An introductory section provides
readers with the historical, theoretical, and methodological foundations needed to
understand the plex ideas presented later. Two hundred discussion ques-
tions provide starting points for class debate and assignments to test student
understanding.
Michael P. Muehlenbein is an assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana
University, Bloomington. He holds an MsPH in both tropical medicine and biosta-
tistics from Tulane University, as well as an MPhil and PhD in biological anthropol-
ogy from Yale University. His research interests are focused most recently on
(1) evaluating hormone-mediated immune functions in reference to evolutionary
and life history theories, and (2) investigating potential zoonotic and anthropozoo-
notic pathogen transmission associated with primate-based ecotourism. He has
received teaching awards for his graduate and undergraduate courses on human
biological variation, behavioral endocrinology, evolutionary medicine, and global
health. In addition to running an endocrinology and infectious disease laboratory
in Indiana, he presently conducts fieldwork in the United States, Malaysia, Dominica,
and the Dominican Republic.
HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY
BIOLOGY
Edited by
MICHAEL P. MUEHLENBEIN
Indiana University, Bloomington
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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