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xx, 500 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend, University of Buffalo ; with contributions by Pamela L. Erickson, University of Connecticut ... [and five others].

Environmental sciences

Physiology, environment, and man : based on a symposium conducted by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, August, 1966 / edited by Douglas H.K. Lee and David Minard.

A.S.A. monographs

Social and ecological systems / edited by P.C. Burnham and R.F. Ellen.

Social behavior, natural resources, and the environment / William R. Burch, Neil H. Cheek, Lee Taylor.

Nature cure / Richard Mabey.

Eugenics laboratory lecture series

University of London.  Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics.  Eugenics Laboratory lecture series

The relative strength of nurture and nature / Ethel M. Elderton.

<p>Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans-- feats of endurance that now seem impossible without modern technology. Can we hack our bodies and use the environment to stimulate our inner biology? Carney explores the true connection between the mind and the body and reveals the science that allows us to push past our perceived limitations.</p>

xxxii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

What doesn't kill us : how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength / Scott Carney ; foreword by Wim Hof.

Eighteenth Century collections online

Remarks on the influence of climate, situation, nature of country, population, nature of food, and way of life, on the disposition and temper, manners and behaviour, intellects, laws and customs, form of government, and religion, of mankind. By William Falconer, M.D.F.R.S.

Climate and energy of nations / by S.F. Markham.

<p>Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon.</p>

xii, 166 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend, University of Buffalo ; with contributions by Pamela L. Erickson, University of Connecticut ... [and five others].

Physiology, environment, and man : based on a symposium conducted by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, August, 1966 / edited by Douglas H.K. Lee and David Minard.

Social and ecological systems / edited by P.C. Burnham and R.F. Ellen.

Social behavior, natural resources, and the environment / William R. Burch, Neil H. Cheek, Lee Taylor.

Nature cure / Richard Mabey.

The relative strength of nurture and nature / Ethel M. Elderton.

What doesn't kill us : how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength / Scott Carney ; foreword by Wim Hof.

Remarks on the influence of climate, situation, nature of country, population, nature of food, and way of life, on the disposition and temper, manners and behaviour, intellects, laws and customs, form of government, and religion, of mankind. By William Falconer, M.D.F.R.S.

Climate and energy of nations / by S.F. Markham.

Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose : natural history in early America / Lee Alan Dugatkin.

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Medical anthropology in ecological perspective / Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend, University of Buffalo ; with contributions by Pamela L. Erickson, University of Connecticut ... [and five others].

Physiology, environment, and man : based on a symposium conducted by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, August, 1966 / edited by Douglas H.K. Lee and David Minard.

Social and ecological systems / edited by P.C. Burnham and R.F. Ellen.

Social behavior, natural resources, and the environment / William R. Burch, Neil H. Cheek, Lee Taylor.

Nature cure / Richard Mabey.

The relative strength of nurture and nature / Ethel M. Elderton.

What doesn't kill us : how freezing water, extreme altitude, and environmental conditioning will renew our lost evolutionary strength / Scott Carney ; foreword by Wim Hof.

Remarks on the influence of climate, situation, nature of country, population, nature of food, and way of life, on the disposition and temper, manners and behaviour, intellects, laws and customs, form of government, and religion, of mankind. By William Falconer, M.D.F.R.S.

Climate and energy of nations / by S.F. Markham.

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