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Nina G. Jablonski

Autore di Skin: A Natural History

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Nina G. Jablonski is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color (UC Press). Her research on human skin has been featured in National Geographic, Scientific American, and other mostra altro publications. mostra meno

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Data di nascita
1953-08-20
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Istruzione
Bryn Mawr College (AB|Biology|1975)
University of Washington (PhC|Anthropology|1978)
University of Washington (PhD|Anthropology|1981)
Stellenbosch University
Organizzazioni
Pennsylvania State University
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
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Nina G. Jablonski is a professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and the Associate Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Her research focuses on the natural history of human skin, the origin of bipedalism, the evolution and biogeography of Old World monkeys adn the paleoecology of mammals that lived during the past two million years. She had conducted fieldwork in China, Kenya, and Nepal. [from Evolution of Your Body (2015)]

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Skin. The organ you probably take the most for granted. It seems extremely simple, but as Nina G. Jablonski shows us in this book, Skin: A Natural History, it is extremely complex. I chose this book for my alternate reading assignment in my Biological Anthropology class this past semester, and it's fascinating. She goes over, of course, the "basics" that most (if not all) of us know from our introductory biology courses in high school or college, but she takes it a little more in depth as well. ...

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here.be.bookwyrms | 1 altra recensione | May 20, 2011 |
This is a fabulous, very interesting book. Jablonski covers everything from the evolution of skin in various animals, skin color, and senses to cultural differences and skin ornamentation. If you have any interest in these topics, you will love this book. It's very scientific and factual, but written in a way that is easily accessible to those without a strong science background.
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verbafacio | 1 altra recensione | May 26, 2007 |

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ISBN
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