Human frontiers, environments, and disease : past patterns, uncertain futures
This compelling account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography, and its changing survival patterns, from several million years ago when our ancient ancestors roamed the African Savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world
1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Disease patterns in human biohistory
Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance
Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection
Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving
The Third Horseman: food, farming and famines
The industrial era: the Fifth Horseman?
Longer lives and lower birth rates
Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey
Cities, social environments and synapses
Global environmental change: overstepping limits
Health and disease: an ecological perspective
Footprints to the future: treading less heavily
English
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