Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Heads

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789742403321
• Autore: Heads Michael J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-36973-7; 9786613369734; 0-520-95180-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (577 p.)
• Collana: Species and systematics
• Disciplina: 578.0913
• Soggetti: Biogeography - Tropics; Biology - Classification - Molecular aspects; Variation (Biology) - Tropics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Evolution In Space -- 2. Evolution In Time -- 3. Evolution And Biogeography Of Primates: A New Model Based On Molecular Phylogenetics, Vicariance, And Plate Tectonics -- 4. Biogeography Of New World Monkeys -- 5. Primates In Africa And Asia -- 6. Biogeography Of The Central Pacific: Endemism, Vicariance, And Plate Tectonics -- 7. Biogeography Of The Hawaiian Islands: The Global Context -- 8. Distribution Within The Hawaiian Islands -- 9. Biogeography Of Pantropical And Global Groups -- 10. Evolution In Space, Time, And Form: Beyond Centers Of Origin, Dispersal, And Adaptation -- Glossary Of Geological Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author -- Species And Systematics
• Sommario/riassunto: Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history and biogeography, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics is an alternative view of distributional history in which groups are older than suggested by fossils and fossil-calibrated ; molecular clocks. The author discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar, and overlapping clades in South America, Africa, and Asia. The book concludes with a critique of adaptation by selection, founded on biogeography and recent work in genetics.

The anthropology of the fetus : biology, culture, and society / / edited by Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807768003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018; ©2018
• ISBN: 1-78533-692-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Collana: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality ; ; 38
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetti: Physical anthropology; Human biology; Fetus - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword. How/Shall We Consider the Fetus? -- Introduction. Conceiving the Anthropology of the Fetus -- PART I: The Fetus in Biosocial Perspective -- Chapter 1. The Borderless Fetus: Temporal Complexity of the Lived Fetal Experience -- Chapter 2. The Biology of the Fetal Period: Interpreting Life from Fetal Skeletal Remains -- Chapter 3. Pregnant with Ideas: Concepts of the Fetus in the Twenty-First-Century United States -- PART II: Finding Fetuses in the Past: Archaeology and Bioarchaeology -- Chapter 4. The Bioarchaeology of Fetuses -- Chapter 5. Fetal Paleopathology: An Impossible Discipline? -- Chapter 6. The Neolithic Infant Cemetery at Gebel Ramlah in Egypt’s Western Desert -- Chapter 7. Excavating Identity: Burial Context and Fetal Identity in Postmedieval Poland -- PART III: The Once and Future ; Fetus: Sociocultural Anthropology -- Chapter 8. Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research in the United States -- Chapter 9. Deploying the Fetus: Constructing Pregnancy and Abortion in Morocco -- Chapter 10. Beyond Life Itself: The Embedded Fetuses of Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism -- Chapter 11. The “Sound” of Life: Or, How Should We Hear a Fetal “Voice”? -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. Contributors draw on research in prehistoric, historic, and contemporary sites in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America to explore the biological and cultural phenomenon of the fetus, raising methodological and theoretical concerns with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.