Chapter 5: Biology in the Present: Living People
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- CHAPTER 5 BIOLOGY IN THE PRESENT: LIVING PEOPLE
- BIG QUESTIONS
- Is Race a Valid, Biologically Meaningful Concept?
- Brief History of the Race Concept
- Debunking the Race Concept: Franz Boas Shows That Human Biology Is Not Static
- So-Called Racial Traits Are Not Concordant
- Human Variation: Geographic Clines, Not Racial Categories
- Life History: Growth and Development
- The Growth Cycle: Conception through Adulthood
- Prenatal Stage: Sensitive to Environmental Stress, Predictive of Adult Health
- ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS: Coronary Heart Disease Starts Early: Prenatal Origins of a Common Killer
- Postnatal Stage: The Maturing Brain, Preparing for Adulthood
- Adult Stage: Aging and Senescence
- HOW DO WE KNOW?: Life on the Margins: The Case of the East African Turkana Pastoralists
- CONCEPT CHECK: Life History Stages in Humans: Prenatal, Postnatal, and Adult
- Evolution of Human Life History: Food, Sex, and Strategies for Survival and Reproduction
- Prolonged Childhood: Fat-Bodied Moms and Their Big-Brained Babies
- Grandmothering: Part of Human Adaptive Success
- Adaptation: Meeting the Challenges of Living
- Climate Adaptation: Living on the Margins
- Heat Stress and Thermoregulation
- Body Shape and Adaptation to Heat Stress
- Cold Stress and Thermoregulation
- Solar Radiation and Skin Color
- Solar Radiation and Vitamin D Synthesis
- High Altitude and Access to Oxygen
- CONCEPT CHECK: Adaptation: Heat, Cold, Solar Radiation, High Altitude
- Nutritional Adaptation: Energy, Nutrients, and Function
- Macronutrients and Micronutrients
- Human Nutrition Today
- Overnutrition and the Consequences of Dietary Excess
- CONCEPT CHECK: Nutritional Adaptation
- Workload Adaptation: Skeletal Homeostasis and Function
- Excess Activity and Reproductive Ecology
- ANSWERING THE BIG QUESTIONS
- Key Terms
- Additional Readings
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