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Books in the Studies in Biology, Economy and Society series

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  • - Biological and Social Perspectives
    by R. I. M. Dunbar
    £104.49

    Reproductive biologists, evolutionary biologists, demographers and social scientists all have a common interest in the business of human reproduction.

  • - Evolutionary, Biosocial and Clinical Perspectives
     
    £93.99

    Examples are taken from fossil and living animal populations, and from outlier human populations and traditional societies. A wide range of stressful situations also are analyzed under the less stringent conditions experienced by modern human populations, when cultural factors assume importance.

  • - Genetics, Demography and Health
     
    £93.99

    The book focuses on the role of both biological and behavioural factors in the fertility, and specific patterns of health and disease, of minority populations living in developed and less developed countries.

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    - Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Symposium of the Galton Institute, London 1992
     
    £38.49

    This book explores the emerging speciality of fetal medicine. The new technology for examining DNA is described as a background to later chapters concerned with gene therapy and the examination of the conceptus.

  • - The Legacy of His Ideas
     
    £134.99

    Part of the "Studies in Biology, Economy and Society" series, this book looks at Sir Francis Galton, a grandson of Erasmus Darwin. In his twenties he won fame as an explorer, writing "The Art of Travel". In 1883, he coined the word eugenics by which he meant "good in birth" and "noble in heredity",

  • - Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium of the Eugenics Society, London, 1985
    by W.Milo Keynes
    £27.99

  • - A Centenary Celebration of the Life of Julian Huxley
     
    £47.99

    This collection of papers is in honour of Julian Huxley, President from 1959 until 1962 of the Eugenics Society, which exists to support research into genetic and social factors of human reproduction with a view to improving problems associated with heredity, human qualities and population.

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