Micro-evolutive processes as seen from biological anthropology: the impact of cultural factors

Published: December 31, 2002
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Demography, biological anthropology and population genetics share in their focus on changes in human populations (Adams et al., 1990). Despite their common theme, they approach the problems differently: demography describes the actual state of a population, population genetics scan modifications of the genetic pool while anthropology aims at tracing the hominids' biological and cultural history and assessing their conse<juences on the evolution of the same. Adaptation can be described as the comprehensive organism/environment relations which enable a biological being to live and breed in a given place. [...]

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Boetsch, G. (2002). Micro-evolutive processes as seen from biological anthropology: the impact of cultural factors. Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino Della Società Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale, 78(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2002.10585