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Plasticity refers to the ability of many organisms to change their biology or behaviour to respond to changes in the environment, particularly when these are stressful. Humans are, perhaps, the most plastic of all species, and hence the most variable. This book reflects on the history of research in this area, state-of-the-art research methods and discoveries and needs for future research in human plasticity and variability. Topics discussed include child growth, starvation, disease of both young and old and the effects of migration, modernisation and other life-style changes. The book will be especially useful to biological anthropologists, human biologists and medical scientists interested in knowing more about how and why humans vary.

572.1/.4 --- 572.2 --- 614 --- 612.6 --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Biological diversity --- Human anatomy --- -Physical anthropology --- Human beings --- -Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Anatomy, Human --- Anatomy --- Medical sciences --- Human body --- Biological diversification --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Compensation (Physiology) --- Plasticity (Physiology) --- Ecophysiology --- Anthropogeny. Human development in general. Origin of the human species --- Heterogeneity of the human species. Races. Physical types. Varieties --- Openbare gezondheidszorg--(zie ook {351.84}) --- Voortplanting. Groei. Ontwikkeling --- Variation --- Effect of environment on --- Biodiversity. --- Physical anthropology. --- Variation. --- Effect of environment on. --- Adaptation (Physiology). --- -Anthropogeny. Human development in general. Origin of the human species --- 572.2 Heterogeneity of the human species. Races. Physical types. Varieties --- 572.1/.4 Anthropogeny. Human development in general. Origin of the human species --- -Biological anthropology --- Homo sapiens --- Biodiversity --- Physical anthropology --- Environmental effects on human beings --- Human ecology --- Nature and nurture --- Variation (Biology) --- Life Sciences --- General and Others --- Lasker, Gabriel Ward. --- Lasker, G. W. --- Lasker, Gabriel W.