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Lamb, Bernard Charles.

Human diversityits nature, extent, causes and effects on people /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Human diversityBernard Charles Lamb.
Reminder of title:	its nature, extent, causes and effects on people /
Author:	Lamb, Bernard Charles.
Published:	New Jersey :World Scientific,2016.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 432 p.) :ill.
Subject:	Ethnopsychology.
Online resource:	http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9368#t=toc
ISBN:	9789814632362 (electronic bk.)

Human diversityits nature, extent, causes and effects on people /
Lamb, Bernard Charles.

Human diversityits nature, extent, causes and effects on people /[electronic resource] :Bernard Charles Lamb. - New Jersey :World Scientific,2016. - 1 online resource (xv, 432 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction : scope of the book; types of human difference and their causes -- Plates -- Races and inter-mixing, nationalities, cultures, castes, classes and religions -- Height, weight, shape and obesity -- Differences between males and females; reproduction and its production of genetic diversity -- Personal choice, including cosmetic and preventative surgery, clothing and make-up -- A rich but frustrating diversity of languages -- Names and identity -- Albinos, colour-blindness and height: how human characteristics are inherited -- The brain, nerves, intelligence, mind, personality, mental problems, learning, memory, creativity, happiness -- Sex, attraction, reproduction, twins, incest -- Chapter 11.diseases, disorders, immunity, cancer -- Eating, drinking, diet, digestion, liver,cystic fibrosis, diabetes, allergies, food intolerances, anorexia -- Skin, skin colour and disorders -- The skeleton, muscles; osteoporosis, me, motor neurone disease, muscular dystrophy -- Head, face, eyes, ears, sight, hearing, smell, taste -- Chapter 16.the heart; heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure -- Chapter 17.blood, blood groups; anaemia, haemophilia, leukaemia and other blood disorders -- Arms, legs, giants, dwarfs, arthritis, left-handedness -- Kidneys, urine, bladder, cystitis, police alcohol tests -- Lungs, breathing, asthma -- Chapter 21.development from the fertilised egg; sexual and later development -- Chapter 22.longevity, ageing, birth and deathrates, immigration, population structure -- Chapter 23.abnormalities of sex chromosomes and autosomes, down syndrome, barr bodies -- Chapter 24.opinions on the national characteristics of the Chinese, Japanese and English.

ISBN: 9789814632362 (electronic bk.)

LCCN: 2015015474Subjects--Topical Terms:

177551
Ethnopsychology.

LC Class. No.: GN270 / .L36 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 155.8/2

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