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Biological adaptability of Australian Aboriginal people
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The Human Adaptability section of the International Biological Programme (IBP/HA) was launched in December 1962, with a conference at the CIBA Foundation in London. This lasted precisely for the duration of the last great London fog, a circumstance, which Collins and Weiner (1977) describe as 'imposing a monastic seclusion on the participants who were thus obliged to remain together almost continuously for five days'. The outcome was a framework and policy for human biology research which was...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Human adaptability: past, present, and future: the first Parkes Foundation Workshop, Oxford, January 1994
- Pages:
- 157-182
- Publication date:
- 1997-01-01
- ISBN:
- 0198548575
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:8333
- Deposit date:
- 2014-04-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright date:
- 1997
- Notes:
- The full text of this book chapter is not available in ORA.
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