Stress Evolutionary, Biosocial and Clinical Perspectives
The collected papers in this volume cover the effects of environmental stress under a biological and energetic model. Examples are taken from fossil and living animal populations, and from outlier human populations and traditional societies. These example
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Published titles Milo Keynes, David A. Coleman and Nicholas H. Dimsdale (editors) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE Peter Diggory, Malcolm Potts and Sue Teper (editors) NATURAL HUMAN FERTILITY Milo Keynes and G. Ainsworth Harrison (editors) EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES: A Centenary Celebration of the Life of Julian Huxley David Robinson, Alan Maynard and Robert Chester (editors) CONTROLLING LEGAL ADDICTIONS D.F. Roberts and Robert Chester (editors) MOLECULAR GENETICS IN MEDICINE: Advances, Applications and Ethical Implications Alan H. Bittles and D. F. Roberts (editors) MINORITY POPULATIONS: Genetics, Demography and Health Milo Keynes (editor) SIR FRANCIS GALTON, FRS: The Legacy of his Ideas S.L. Barron and D.F. Roberts (editors) ISSUES IN FETAL MEDICINE Robin Dunbar (editor) HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE DECISIONS: Biological and Social Perspectives Alan H. Ditties and Peter A. Parsons (editors) STRESS: Evolutionary, Biosocial and Clinical Perspectives
Stress Evolutionary, Biosocial and Clinical Perspectives Proceedings of the thirty-first annual symposium of the Galton Institute, London 1994 Edited by
Alan H. Bittles
Foundation Professor of Human Biology Edith Cowan University, Perth
and
Peter A. Parsons
Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology Griffith University, Brisbane
in association with Palgrave Macmillan
©The Galton Institute 1996
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1996 978-0-333-66611-1
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Contents List of Tables
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List of Figures
viii
Notes on the Contributors
X
Preface
XI
1 Long-term Responses to Physical Stress: Evidence from the Fossil Record Peter R. Sheldon 2
Environmental Stress and Evolutionary Adaptation R.J. Berry
3 The Galton Lecture for 1994: From Energy Budgets to Adaptive Limits under Stress: Sexual Ornaments, Senescence, and Outlier Human Populations Peter A. Parsons 4
Population Differences in Blood Pressure Genes Nicholas D. Carter
5
Sub-threshold Effects of Maternal Alcohol Consumption on Craniodental Development Jules A. Kieser
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