Human frontiers, environments, and disease : past patterns, uncertain futures / Tony McMichael.

By:

McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511019378
9780511019371
0511047924
9780511047923
0511153376
9780511153372
9781139106924
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9780521803113
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9781280154850
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0521004942
9786610154852
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9781107123212
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9781316099094
0511327889
9780511327889

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human frontiers, environments, and disease.DDC classification:

362.1 21

LOC classification:

RA441 .M427 2001eb

NLM classification:

WA 31

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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.

Summary: 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.

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

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.