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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 ...
History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia (two volumes)
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1998-07)
Edited by Frank Spencer. New York: Garland. 1997. 1,195 pp. ISBN 0-8153-0490-0. $175.00 (cloth).
History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
This chapter explores the micro-politics of marriage practices among a Tamang and Ghale population in north central Nepal. Based on ethnographic and survey research in Timling (Tipling), it establishes that marriage ...
Developmental, genetic, and environmental components of aerobic capacity at high altitude
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1995-04)
The aerobic capacity of 268 subjects (158 males and 110 females) was evaluated in La Paz, Bolivia situated at 3,750 m. The sample included 1) 39 high altitude rural natives (all male); 2) 67 high altitude urban natives (32 ...
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, ...
Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neanderthal Ecology
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1996)
No abstract.
Developmental components of resting ventilation among high- and low-altitude Andean children and adults
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-07)
This paper evaluates the age-associated changes of resting ventilation of 115 high- and low-altitude Aymara subjects, of whom 61 were from the rural Aymara village of Ventilla situated at an average altitude of 4,200 m and ...
Koobi Fora research project, volume 5: plio-pleistocene archaeology
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-10)
No abstract.