Little, Michael A. (Author)
Current Anthropology
Volume: 53, no. S5
Issue: S5
Pages: 126-138
Publication date: 2013
Language: English
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “The View from the Centers: Germany, France, United States”
Human population biology can be identified as the biocultural study of living humans from evolutionary, historical, populational, developmental, biomedical, and anthropological perspectives. Biological anthropology really came of age during the second half of the twentieth century, after the end of World War II. Human population biology, as a subfield of biological anthropology, was a part of this scientific maturation of the discipline. Contributions to the postwar transformation of living population studies were (1) wartime studies of military personnel exposed to novel environments, (2) an increase in young academic professionals with new ideas, (3) a decrease in both racist (racialist) attitudes and interest in race typology, and (4) the explosion of research and literature on human biology and behavior2
...MoreArticle Lindee, M. Susan; Santos, Ricardo Ventura (2013) The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks: An Introduction to Supplement 5. Current Anthropology (pp. 3-16).
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