Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology

Looks at energy intake, expenditure and balance in traditional subsistence populations.

Stanley J. Ulijaszek (Author)

9780521432955, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 June 1995

248 pages, 54 b/w illus. 55 tables
23.6 x 15.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.484 kg

"...[the study] results in a useful examination of the strategies employed by humans to satisfy their energy requirements, as well as the probable origins of these strategies." William A. Stini, The Quarterly Review of Biology

Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology considers various ways in which measurements of energy intake, expenditure and balance have been used to study human populations by biological anthropologists and human biologists. Central to this approach is the concept of adaptation and adaptability, placed in an ecological context by considering such processes in traditional subsistence economies in the developing world. This is the first volume presenting such an integrated approach, and will be useful in the teaching of biological anthropology, human population biology, nutritional anthropology, and third world nutrition at senior undergraduate and graduate student level.

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Theory and Methods: 2. The individual and the group
3. Methods
4. Modelling
Part II. Energetics and Anthropology: 5. Reproductive performance
6. Growth and body size
7. Energy, effort and subsistence
8. Energetics and human evolution
9. Energy balance and seasonality
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Human biology [PSX], Physical anthropology [JHMP]