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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unrean/unused condition. Pages in unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium on Long-Term Consequences of Early Environments held on April 9-10 1994 at the Pauling Centre University of Oxford considered the recent developments in the study of the ways in which early environmental factors can influence human individuals and populations across their lifespan. The topic was examined in a systematic manner by human biologists auxologists epidemiologists anthropologists physiologists and nutritionists and the papers discussed at this meeting are published in this volume. For the past 30 years human population biology has sought to document and explain processes that have contributed to biological variability in the human species. In particular it has become clear that the effects of environment upon the genotype are rarely simple and often not immediately apparent. Environmental effects on human physical and psychological development are considerable and well documented but the long-term consequences and phenotypic expression in later life of processes taking place during growth and development have only recently become the focus of intense study. Such research has implications for human biology anthropology nutrition clinical science and epidemiology. (LL)