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Evolving Health

The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick

By: Noel T. Boaz

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Evolving Health

The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick

By: Noel T. Boaz

Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage — which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows: Level of Evolution / Cause of adaptive failure / resulting disease or problem Pre-life / Environmental poisons / Certain birth defects Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like) / Viral infection / Colds/flu/HIV Morula (sponge-like) / Cellular stress / Cancer Chordate / Physical stress / Back pain Fish / Excess dietary salt / Hypertension/heart disease Amphibian / Tobacco smoke / Lung cancer/emphysema Lower primate / Excess dietary sugar / Diabetes mellitus Higher primate / Vitamin C deficiency / Scurvy Ape / Excess dietary protein / Gout Homo sapiens / Reduced dietary variety / Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471212997

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9780471212997

Dragon Bone Hill

An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus

By: Noel T. Boaz,Russell L. Ciochon

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Dragon Bone Hill

An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus

By: Noel T. Boaz,Russell L. Ciochon

Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, scientists Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon retell the story of the cave's unique species of early human, Homo erectus. Boaz and Ciochon take readers on a gripping scientific odyssey. New evidence shows that Homo erectus was an opportunist who rode a tide of environmental change out Africa and into Eurasia, puddle-jumping from one gene pool to the next. Armed with a shaky hold on fire and some sharp rocks, Homo erectus incredibly survived for over 1.5 million years, much longer than our own species Homo sapiens has been on Earth. Tell-tale marks on fossil bones show that the lives of these early humans were brutal, ruled by hunger and who could strike the hardest blow, yet there are fleeting glimpses of human compassion as well. The small brain of Homo erectus and its strangely unchanging culture indicate that the species could not talk. Part of that primitive culture included ritualized aggression, to which the extremely thick skulls of Homo erectus bear mute witness. Both a vivid recreation of the unimagined way of life of a prehistoric species, so similar yet so unlike us, and a fascinating exposition of how modern multidisciplinary research can test hypotheses in human evolution, Dragon Bone Hill is science writing at its best.

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264

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Oxford University Press

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0190288329

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9780190288327

Quarry Closing In On the Missing Link

By: Noel T. Boaz

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Quarry Closing In On the Missing Link

By: Noel T. Boaz

A leading anthropologist's twenty-year quest in northern and eastern Africa shows how findings from a variety of fields contribute to a holistic picture of human evolution and provide a context for understanding today's problems.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439119910

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9781439119914

Biological Anthropology

A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution

By: Noel Thomas Boaz,Alan J. Almquist

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Biological Anthropology

A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution

By: Noel Thomas Boaz,Alan J. Almquist

For the introductory physical anthropology course. It may also be appropriate for the upper level biological anthropology course. This innovative new text narrates the history of the evolutionary progression of the human lineage through time. Evolution by natural selection provides the conceptual framework as students learn the essentials of molecular anthropology and genetics, then are led through geological time to the origins of vertebrates, mammals, primates, hominoids, and finally hominids. In each section, behavior, morphology, adaptation, and ecology are discussed to provide the comparative basis for human origins.

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0133692086

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9780133692082

Book's by Noel T. Boaz

Evolving Health

Evolving Health

Dragon Bone Hill

Dragon Bone Hill

Quarry Closing In On the Missing Link

Quarry Closing In On the Missing Link

Biological Anthropology

Biological Anthropology

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