By D. Ann Herring, Alan C. Swedlund
This e-book describes how archival facts tell anthropological questions about human biology and wellbeing and fitness. The authors current a various array of human organic facts from numerous assets together with the archaeological list, scientific collections, church documents, modern overall healthiness and progress information, and genetic details from the descendants of historic populations. The contributions display how the research of old records expands the horizons of analysis in human biology, extends the longitudinal research of microevolutionary and social procedures into the current, and complements the certainty of the human situation.
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