Evolutionary Thought in Paleopathology and the Rise of the Biocultural Approach

A Companion to Paleopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 34-57

  Zuckerman, Molly K ^a   Turner, Bethany L ^b   Armelagos, George J ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocultural approach, role in paleopathology evolutionary thought; Biocultural, from ecology "new" physical anthropology archaeology; Biology and culture, as dialectically intertwined; Evolutionary perspective, social cultural environmental economic; Evolutionary thought in paleopathology, and the biocultural; Paleopathology as method focused, with evolutionary impeded; Paleopathology transforming in the 1960s, descriptive to interpretive; Paleopathology, making little use of evolutionary perspectives; Principles of plasticity, natural selection, gene flow genetic drift; The past, evolutionary synthetic in predicting the present future

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885505089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444345940.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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