Submissions tagged with Anthropology
(2 documents)
Overweight, Obesity and Socio-economic Change among Tangkhul Naga Tribal Women of Manipur, North East India
Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing worldwide at an alarming rate. Although in countries like India, which is multi-ethnic having multi socio-economic levels, is typi...
Received 05 June 2008 06:56 GMT; Posted 10 June 2008
Posted to: Evolution and Ecology
Why are women smaller than men? When anthropology meets evolutionary biology
There are large variations of size among humans but in all populations, men are larger on average than women. For most biologists this fact can be easily explained by the same processes that explai...
Received 25 April 2008 12:25 GMT; Posted 25 April 2008
Posted to: Evolution and Ecology