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Introduction
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1990)
A basic premise of studies conducted in the 1950s and 1960s was that humans exhibited a uniform set of biological responses to the high altitude environment. Since then, investigations have been carried out in the North ...
Role of genetic and environmental factors in the increased blood pressures of Bolivian blacks
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
The tendency toward hypertension or higher blood pressure is more common in blacks than whites. The factors that account for these differences are attributed to both environmental and genetic factors. To clarify this issue, ...
Stress and female reproductive function: A study of daily variations in cortisol, gonadotrophins, and gonadal steroids in a rural Mayan population
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-09)
We report here on a longitudinal study of stress and women's reproduction in a small Kaqchikel Mayan community in rural Guatemala. Current understanding of the effects of stress on the reproductive axis in women is mostly ...
Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neanderthal Ecology
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1996)
No abstract.
Blood pressure in blacks and whites and its relationship to dietary sodium and potassium intake
(Elsevier, 1984)
The 24-hour dietary intake and blood pressure of 1928 black and 9739 white adults derived from the data sets of the first US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) of 1971-1974 were analyzed. Contrary ...
Applications of the pattern variability index (Σ z ) to the quantification of dysmorphogenesis in the hand
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1987-05)
We have generated percentiles for the pattern variability index (Σ z ) of the hand in 1,088 normal infants, children, and adults and have analyzed pattern variability indices for 820 individuals representing 50 congenital ...
Effects of cattle grazing and haying on wildlife conservation at National Wildlife Refuges in the United States
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1987-01)
The National Wildlife Refuge System is perhaps the most important system of federal lands for protecting wildlife in the United States. Only at refuges has wildlife conservation been legislated to have higher priority than ...
Information on ancestry from genetic markers
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-05)
It is possible to estimate the proportionate contributions of ancestral populations to admixed individuals or populations using genetic markers, but different loci and alleles vary considerably in the amount of information ...