Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 37 (2) 2009

Annotation:  Evolution of the Quaternary Environment in the Northwestern Altai Kostenki-4: The Position of Artifacts in Space and Time (the Analysis of the Cultural Layer) Stratigraphic Data on Middle Paleolithic Sites in the Upper Desna Basin Human-made Bedrock Holes (Mortars and Cupmarks) as a Late Natufi an Social Phenomenon Tsaram: A Burial Ground of the Hsiung-nu Elite in Transbaikalia Species Attribution of Hair of the Pazyryk Fur Coat from the Olon-Kurin-Gol-10 Burial Ground, Mongo Shaitanskoye Ozero II: New Aspects of the Uralian Bronze Age Yankovsky Economics: Animal Bones from 1st Millennium BC Settlements in Primorye, Russian Far East “Technical Decoration” of the Tripolye Ceramics On the Interpretation of Central Asian and South Siberian Rock Art Forms of Nomadism and Livestock Management of the Eastern Sayan Buryats in the Late 19th and Early Harvesting of Siberian Pine Nuts in Mountain Shoria: Traditions and Nowadays The Ethnic History of Medieval Novgorod (Based on Craniometric Data) Seliungur Teeth Revisited L.K. Gudkova.   

L.K. Gudkova.

L.K. Gudkova.

Population physiology is a branch of physiological anthropology studying the physiological structure of populations under specifi c environmental conditions. The theoretical basis of this discipline is the theory of physiological homeostasis and, more generally, notions such as biological system and integrity. The primary task of human population physiology is the study of within- and between-population variability of separate physiological characteristics and of the physiological status a whole. The systemic approach allows assessing similarities versus dissimilarities between populations in physiological status and interpreting them in terms of ecological specifi city, and adaptation versus maladaptation.

Keywords: Physiological homeostasis, adaptation, ecological factors, physiological status, systemic approach, variability.