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Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment

By: Virginia Deane Abernethy

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Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment

By: Virginia Deane Abernethy

Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Abernethy points out that in response to perception of scarcity or abundance of resources, culturally mediated values, beliefs and behavioral patterns are modified in ways that can either raise or lower rates of population growth. Abernethy in this way moves beyond the ideological debates that have sundered the field of policy and population. In real world time and space, cultural adjustments that balance population and resources are made over a long stretch in relatively stable or known environments. These adjustments also operate in processes that involve technological advances that appear to increase carrying capacity, and these usually act to support and underwrite population growth in any given area. In her new introduction to this first paperback edition, Abernethy shows how many of the cultural changes the book predicted in 1979 have come to pass. She details a complex of behaviors that favor single life-styles or small family size that have contributed to low fertility rates among native-born Americans while fertility rates among immigrants continue to climb. Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment is not simply a theoretical slogan, but discusses a rich set of different cultural situations where this homeostatic process has been disrupted or aborted. Often, disruption occurs after the infusion of foreign value systems as well as new forms of technological innovation, or when highly permeable social boundaries result in the importation of resources for which the limits and consequences are not fully appreciated by the host population. This work will inevitably be controversial because of its implications for the limits as well as the potential of public policy in both advanced and underdeveloped societies.

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227

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Routledge

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135129878X

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9781351298780

Controlling Crohn's Disease

The Natural Way

By: Virginia M. Harper

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Controlling Crohn's Disease

The Natural Way

By: Virginia M. Harper

Drawn from the author's own experiences with Crohn's disease, an incurable inflammatory bowel disorder, a revolutionary guide provides an effective natural treatment program, comprised of simple changes in diet and lifestyle, that will help to overcome this painful disease. Original.

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292

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Kensington Books

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1575668319

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9781575668314

Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction

A Compendium of Species-specific Data

By: Virginia Douglass Hayssen,Ari Van Tienhoven,Ans Van Tienhoven

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Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction

A Compendium of Species-specific Data

By: Virginia Douglass Hayssen,Ari Van Tienhoven,Ans Van Tienhoven

Since the appearance of the second edition of Sydney A. Asdell's widely used Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction in 1964, the field of reproductive physiology has expanded dramatically. Accordingly, this revision adopts a different structure from previous editions, substituting empirical delineations for physiological interpretations. With the emphases now on a presentation of the published facts of mammalian reproduction, it provides a thorough compilation of what is known about the basic reproductive biology of each of the 4300 mammalian species.To gather information, the authors examined more than 20,000 publications, dating up to 1992. They used primary sources as much as possible, supplementing them with English translations of Russian, Finnish, Chinese, and Japanese journals. The data are presented in taxonomic order. Each familial account summarizes the pattern of reproduction for the family and provides lists of citations arranged by topic of the literature on the endocrinology, reproductive anatomy, and reproductive physiology of the family. Following each account is a tabular listing of species-specific data for neonatal mass and size, weaning mass and size, litter size, age at sexual maturity, estrous cycle length, gestation length, lactation length, number of litters per year, and seasonality of reproduction. For each of these reproductive variables, the range of data gleaned from the literature is given, together with the source of each value listed.Virginia Hayssen is Assistant Professor of Biology at Smith College. Ari Van Tienhoven is Professor of Animal Physiology, Emeritus, at Cornell University. Ans Van Tienhoven assisted in the compilation of data for the book.

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1036

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Cornell University Press

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0801417538

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9780801417535

Stewards of Our Heritage

A History of the Presbyterian Historical Society

By: Virginia F. Rainey

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Stewards of Our Heritage

A History of the Presbyterian Historical Society

By: Virginia F. Rainey

This first history of the Presbyterian Historical Society is a thorough, well-researched presentation.

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Geneva Press

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0664502121

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9780664502126

Ancestral Passions

The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings

By: Virginia Morell

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The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings

By: Virginia Morell

This biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind. In this fascinating and authoritative work, acclaimed science writer Virginia Morell brings to vivid life the famous and infamous Leakey family, pioneers in the field of paleoanthropology: Louis Leakey, the patriarch, who persisted through initial scientific failures and scandal-ridden divorce to achieve spectacular success in digs throughout East Africa; Mary, his second wife, who worked alongside Louis as they made their outstanding discoveries at Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere; and Richard, their son, who ascended to the top of the field in his parents’ wake, only to be threatened with both near-fatal illness and fierce professional rivalry. Morell transports us into the world of these compelling personalities, demonstrating how a small clan of highly talented and fiercely competitive people came to dominate an entire field of science and to contribute immeasurably to our understanding of the origins of humanity.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439143870

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9781439143872

Book's by Virginia Stouffer

Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment

Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment

Controlling Crohn's Disease

Controlling Crohn's Disease

Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction

Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction

Stewards of Our Heritage

Stewards of Our Heritage

Ancestral Passions

Ancestral Passions

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