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Modern Environments and Human Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic Transition demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve longstanding questions about the second epidemiologic transition - the shift from a high burden of epidemic, infectious illness to greater morbidity and mortality from chronic and degenerative diseases. Understanding how, why, and when...

Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The biocultural approach emerged in anthropology in the 1960s, matured in the 1980s, and is now one of the dominant paradigms in anthropology, particularly within biological anthropolo...