Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Seasonality and human biology
- 3 The influence of seasonality on hominid evolution
- 4 Environmental temperature and physiological function
- 5 Physiological responses to variations in daylength
- 6 Seasonality and fertility
- 7 Seasonality of reproductive performance in rural Gambia
- 8 Seasonal effects on physical growth and development
- 9 Seasonal variation in the birth prevalence of polygenic multifactorial diseases
- 10 Environment, season and infection
- 11 Seasonal mortality in the elderly
- 12 Nutritional seasonality: the dimensions of the problem
- 13 Seasonal variation in nutritional status of adults and children in rural Senegal
- 14 Culture, seasons and stress in two traditional African cultures (Massa and Mussey)
- 15 Agriculture, modernisation and seasonality
- 16 Seasonal organisation of work patterns
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Seasonality and human biology
- 3 The influence of seasonality on hominid evolution
- 4 Environmental temperature and physiological function
- 5 Physiological responses to variations in daylength
- 6 Seasonality and fertility
- 7 Seasonality of reproductive performance in rural Gambia
- 8 Seasonal effects on physical growth and development
- 9 Seasonal variation in the birth prevalence of polygenic multifactorial diseases
- 10 Environment, season and infection
- 11 Seasonal mortality in the elderly
- 12 Nutritional seasonality: the dimensions of the problem
- 13 Seasonal variation in nutritional status of adults and children in rural Senegal
- 14 Culture, seasons and stress in two traditional African cultures (Massa and Mussey)
- 15 Agriculture, modernisation and seasonality
- 16 Seasonal organisation of work patterns
- Index
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- Seasonality and Human Ecology , pp. ix - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993