ISBN: 9780340051375 - The Study of Man: An Introduction to Human Biology (3 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition paperback with light wear. Contents are clean with light age tone.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. pp.viii, 212 pages, hardback (imitation cloth), a very good book in a very good plus dust-jacket, first published in 1968 [034005137X].

Reprint ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), figures, tables, few plates, some edgewear jacket (front flap price-clipped), top edge little foxed, minor annotation few pages, owner's rubber stamps. 212 pp. In this textbook on human biology, E. J. Clegg defines this as the study of human variation, both of its causation, whether genetic or environmental, and of its importance in fitting the individual or population to its environment. There are chapters on genetics and on descriptive aspects of variability, a brief survey on human growth and senescence, with emphasis on growth at puberty. The book will be of interest to the general reader and in particular to students, and first year undergraduates in the biological sciences. The author is lecturer in human Biology at the University of Sheffield. Publisher: English Universities Press. (Rubber stamp of P. F. Sinnett.).…