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Title The Solomon Islands Project : a long-term study of health, human biology, and culture change / edited by Jonathan Scott Friedlaender with the assistance of William Howells and John G. Rhoads
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987

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Description xii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Research monographs of human population biology ; 4
Research monographs on human population biology ; no. 4
Research monographs on human population biology ; no. 4
Contents Machine derived contents note: PART I: Population Histories and Profiles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethnographic Description and Recent Histories of the Survey Groups -- 3. Profiles of the Survey Samples -- 4. Perspectives on Health Care in Malaita -- 5. Diet and Nutrition -- 6. Epidemiology -- PART II: Biometric and Genetic Variation Among the Samples -- 7. Blood Polymorphism Variation in the Solomon Islands -- 8. Anthropometry -- 9. Fingerprints as Phylogenetic Markers in the Solomon Islands -- 10. Odontometric Comparisons Among Solomon Islanders and Other Oceanic People -- 11. Statistical Comparison of Patterns of Biological and Cultural-Historical Variation -- PART III: Longitudinal Studies -- 12. Longitudinal Anthropometric Changes in Adolescents and Adults -- 13. Blood Pressure Changes in the Survey Populations -- 14. Hepatitis B in the Solomon Islands -- PART IV: Conclusion
Analysis Solomon Islands Man Population genetics
Notes (Research monographs of human population biology ; 4)
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Solomon Islands Project.
Acculturation -- Solomon Islands.
Anthropometry -- Solomon Islands.
Health surveys -- Solomon Islands.
Human population genetics -- Solomon Islands.
Public health -- Solomon Islands.
Acculturation.
Anthropometry.
Genetics, Population.
Health Surveys.
Public Health.
SUBJECT Pacific Islands. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010139
Author Friedlaender, Jonathan Scott.
Howells, W. W. (William White), 1908-2005.
Rhoads, John G.
LC no. 86023619
ISBN 0198575955