Human frontiers, environments, and disease: past patterns, uncertain futures
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1. Verfasser: McMichael, A. J., (Anthony J.) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-401) and index
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
This compelling account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography, and its changing survival patterns, from several million years ago when our ancient ancestors roamed the African Savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 413 pages)
ISBN:0511019378
0511047924
0511153376
0521004942
052180311X
9780511019371
9780511047923
9780511153372

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