author: barry bogin

... evolution (natural selection, mutation, etc.), developmental plasticity ... case studies of human adaptation. This chapter looks at how surnames, a trait not affected by ... study of human variation and plasticity Summary Introduction.

... for-age z-scores indicate how the heights of children in the study population compare with the heights of children of the same age in the standard/reference population. Weight-for-height z-scores indicate how the weights of children in ...

This completely revised edition provides a synthesis of the forces that shaped the evolution of the human growth pattern, the biocultural factors that direct its expression, the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that regulate individual ...

... khanacademy.org/science/ biology/developmental-biology/signaling-and-transcription-factors-in-development/a/ homeotic-genes, public domain. (A black and white version of this figure will appear in some formats. For the color version ...