Uses of the present
dc.contributor.author | Garn, Stanley M. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-28T17:04:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-28T17:04:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1994 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Garn, Stanley M. (1994)."Uses of the present." American Journal of Human Biology 6(1): 89-96. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/38558> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1042-0533 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1520-6300 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/38558 | |
dc.description.abstract | Working with the living, human biologists are in a fortunate position to put individuals and populations of the past in their appropriate quantitative places and to identify and comprehend environmental “stresses” of previous times. Although some writers have romanticized the human past as a disease-free and natural existence, the evidence is strongly contradictory. Our ancestors and even our hominoid ancestors were much parasitized, with impairment of growth and function. Few had regular access to safe potable water. Their gritty diets were bacteria laden and often full of toxins, and the adequacy of diets was rarely predictable. High indoor occupancy rates facilitated the communication of respiratory diseases as well as mites, lice, fleas, and jiggers. Unventilated cooking and heating hearths made for elevated concentrations of carbon monoxide and particulate products of combustion. Living with animals, for warmth and protection, our Old World ancestors came to share their pathogenic fauna and so added tuberculosis, measles, influenza, smallpox, and numerous “plagues” to the list of human scourges. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.title | Uses of the present | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Medicine (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Center for Human Growth and Development, and The Nutrition Unit of The School of Public Health and The Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0406 ; Center for Human Growth and Development, and The Nutrition Unit of The School of Public Health and The Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0406 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/38558/1/1310060112_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.1310060112 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Human Biology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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