Human frontiers, environments, and disease: past patterns, uncertain futures

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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.

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Full title :Human frontiers, environments, and disease : past patterns, uncertain futures / Tony McMichael.

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Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

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Description:1 online resource (xvi, 413 p.) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0511153376, 9780511153372, 052180311X, 9780521803113, 0521004942, 9780521004947, 0511019378, 9780511019371, 0511047924, 9780511047923, 9781139106924, 1139106929, 1280154853, 9781280154850, 6610154856, 9786610154852
oclc:ocn970507409
LC Classification:RA441
Dewey Decimal:362.1

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.

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Clima -- Cambios Climatic changes -- Health aspects Desarrollo sostenible Développement durable Diseases and history Ecologia humana ÉCOLOGIE HUMAINE Global Health human ecology Maladies et histoire Santé mondiale sustainable development World health