Paul T Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 77420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul T Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul T |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER P T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2745-753X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 327 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Language, sexuality and corpus linguistics: Concerns and future directions
In this paper I discuss the potential that corpus linguistics approaches have to make in terms of enabling research on language and sexuality. After giving some background relating to my involvement in the development of this approach and discussion of some of the benefits of using corpus linguistics, I then outline some potential areas for concern, including: misconceptions of the field as only quantitative, the danger of reading only concordanc…
Hello Sailor: The hidden history of gay life at sea
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of s…
Blood pressure: Genetic and environmental influences. Human Biology, Special Issue, 71(4)
Blood pressure: Genetic and environmental influences. Human Biology, Special Issue, 71(4)
Lita F. Osmunden
Lita F. Osmunden
Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future
Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future. Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Rebecca A. Huss-Ashmore. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.326 pp
The Raymond Pearl memorial lecture, 1996: The eternal triangle—genes, phenotype, and environment
Attempts to understand the causes for phenotypical differences in the biology and behavior of human populations have tended to focus alternatively on genetic, cultural, and natural environmental variables. The relative narrowness of focus in these studies often impedes the development of research design appropriate to the hypothesis and the process of reaching reasonable conclusions. Past research on native high-altitude populations is used first…
The Raymond Pearl memorial lecture, 1996: The eternal triangle—genes, phenotype, and environment
Attempts to understand the causes for phenotypical differences in the biology and behavior of human populations have tended to focus alternatively on genetic, cultural, and natural environmental variables. The relative narrowness of focus in these studies often impedes the development of research design appropriate to the hypothesis and the process of reaching reasonable conclusions. Past research on native high-altitude populations is used first…
Bergmann's rule and the thrifty genotype
One of Roberts' key contributions was his work demonstrating the applicability of several ecological rules to human populations (Roberts [1953] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 11:533-558; [1978] Climate and Human Variability, 2nd ed., Menlo Park, CA: Cummings). His finding that average body weight systematically covaries with mean annual temperature was widely taken as confirmation of Bergmann's rule for humans. More recently his findings on weight and t…
Bergmann's rule and the thrifty genotype
One of Roberts' key contributions was his work demonstrating the applicability of several ecological rules to human populations (Roberts [1953] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 11:533–558; [1978] Climate and Human Variability, 2nd ed., Menlo Park, CA: Cummings). His finding that average body weight systematically covaries with mean annual temperature was widely taken as confirmation of Bergmann's rule for humans. More recently his findings on weight and t…
Adventures in Human Population Biology
In this professional memoir I trace my career and the changes that occurred after World War II in the biological anthropology studies of human populations. I describe my academic training at the University of New Mexico and Harvard University and my research training at the US Climatic Research Laboratory. During my academic career at The Pennsylvania State University, I directed two multidisciplinary research efforts as part of the International…
Health transition in the Pacific Islands
Obituary: Edward Eyre Hunt, Jr. (1922–1991)
Anckar, B., Walden, P., and Jelassi, T. (2001), ?The Relationship Between Business Models and Customer Value in Electronic Grocery Shopping: The Case of Nettimarket.com. IAMSR Research Report 3/2001. Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research
Modernization and catecholamine excretion of young Samoan adults
Record reviews
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Variation in lifestyle characteristics and catecholamine excretion rates among young Western Samoan men
The Study of Chronic Disease in Samoan Populations
As human populations become modernized through migration or by in situ Westernization they experience a change in their patterns of morbidity and mortality. Infectious disease, gastrointestinal disorders and traumatic injury generally decline, while heart disease, stroke, diabetes, gout and carcinoma increase in prevalence. These chronic diseases are accompanied by a number of observable risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, hypercholestero…
Modernization, migration and obesity among Samoan adults
Modernization and migration have biological as well as social effects on people. In this study, 2657 Samoan adults from Western Samoa, American Samoa and Hawaii were surveyed in an attempt to examine the relationships between modernization, migration and obesity. The Samoan men showed an increase in the frequency of obesity with increasing modernity of residence or occupation. While the women in American Samoa had the highest frequency of obesity…
Caloric requirements of human populations: A model
The Adaptive Limits of Human Populations
Obituary: Joseph Sydney Weiner, 1915–1982
The Biology and Health of Andean Migrants: A Case Study in South Coastal Peru
Migration always entails a change in social environment and adjustment to unfamiliar institutions and surroundings. Andean migration frequently also entails a major change in physical environment when high-altitude natives move to low altitude and experience an abrupt. and extreme change in environmental features such as oxygen pressure, temperature, and humidity, which vary with altitude. Both historical and contemporary sources indicate that na…
The Central Andes: Environment, Biology, and Economic Development: A Perspective
Paul T. Baker, The Central Andes: Environment, Biology, and Economic Development: A Perspective, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 2, No. 1, State of Knowledge Report on Andean Ecosystems. Vol. 2: Human Population and Biosphere Interactions in the Central Andes (Feb., 1982), pp. 127-140
Seminaire C.N.R.S./N.S.F.-Paris, October 1980 L'homme et son environnement a haute altitude Environmental and Human Population Problems at High Altitude
Corneille Jest, Paul T. Baker, Séminaire C.N.R.S./N.S.F.-Paris, October 1980 L'homme et son environnement à haute altitude Environmental and Human Population Problems at High Altitude, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 1, No. 3/4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 301-302
Altitude and growth: A study of the patterns of physical growth of a high altitude Peruvian Quechua population
Data on physical growth were obtained for a sample of 1202 Quechua subjects, aged 2 to 35 years from the district of Nuñoa, Puno, located in the southern highlands (altitude 4000–5500m) of Peru. These data were supplemented by a three‐year longitudinal study of 300 subjects, aged 1 to 22 years. The patterns of physical growth of members of the indigenous population of Nuñoa are characterized by (1) late sexual dimorphism, (2) slow and prolonged g…
Demographic Studies in Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The growth and interrelations of skinfolds and brachial tissues in man
The Biology of high altitude peoples
Analyzes the biology of the various groups of people who live at high altitudes.
Subcutaneous fat and age changes in body build and body form in women
Variation in lifestyle characteristics and catecholamine excretion rates among young Western Samoan men
Skin reflectance of Quechua Indians: The effects of genetic admixture, sex and age
The skin reflectance characteristics of a group of Quechua Indians have been described with an emphasis upon the effects of varying degrees of hybridization, sex and age. This group of Peruvian Indians occupied a reflectance range common to that of all other reported groups of South American Indians. Miscegenation with European Whites had a statistically significant although small influence upon skin color. In general males were consistently dark…
Modernization and catecholamine excretion of young Samoan adults
Ecology and Anthropology: A Symposium
The Adaptive Limits of Human Populations
Altitude, migration, and fertility in the Andes
In order to examine the relationship between hypoxia and reduced fertility of high Andean populations, a sample of 241 females living in the low-altitude Tambo Valley of Peru was studied. 63 of the subjects were born in the low-altitude valley, 121 were migrants from high altitudes, and 57 were migrants born in low altitudes. The rate of abortion was low among high-altitude subjects before they migrated, but became greater after migrating. It was…
The use of bone weight for human identification
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
Adventures in Human Population Biology
In this professional memoir I trace my career and the changes that occurred after World War II in the biological anthropology studies of human populations. I describe my academic training at the University of New Mexico and Harvard University and my research training at the US Climatic Research Laboratory. During my academic career at The Pennsylvania State University, I directed two multidisciplinary research efforts as part of the International…
Part II: Modernization effects on familial aggregation of Samoan blood pressure: A preliminary report
Familial correlations of blood pressure corrected for age, sex, and body weight are described in, and compared among, four Samoan samples which differ in exposure to modern life. An initial assessment of the genetic effects on blood pressure variation is performed in the most traditional sample. The juvenile sibling correlation of systolic pressure increases with modernization, whereas the adult sibling systolic correlation decreases with moderni…
Racial differences in heat tolerance
Language, sexuality and corpus linguistics: Concerns and future directions
In this paper I discuss the potential that corpus linguistics approaches have to make in terms of enabling research on language and sexuality. After giving some background relating to my involvement in the development of this approach and discussion of some of the benefits of using corpus linguistics, I then outline some potential areas for concern, including: misconceptions of the field as only quantitative, the danger of reading only concordanc…
Aggression and Hypoglycemia in the Andes: Another Look at the Evidence [and Comments and Replies]
In a Stirling-award winning article, Ralph Bolton offered a psychophysiological explanation for the notorious levels of aggression among the "Qolla" (Quechua and Aymara) Indians of the Peruvian altiplano. The long-standing anthropological characterization of these peasants as pathologically aggressive was supported by Bolton's finding that the community of Incawatana had one of the highest murder rates on record. He hypothesized that mild hypogly…
Basic Problems in Physical Development in Man in Relation to the Evaluation of Development of Children and Youth [and Comments and Reply]
After a period of passive observation of his own phylogenesis, Homo sapiens has begun to take an active role in the development of his species. Having progressed through the stages of treatment and prophylaxis of disease, he will eventually become capable of directing human development. This stage is of concern to physical anthropology, one of the branches of biomedical science. It is also of particular interest to cultural anthropology, because …
Steps Toward a Unified Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
It is generally recognized that there exists currently a strong trend toward the "fractionation" of anthropology and the "absorption" of its several subdivisions into other disciplines. On the other hand, if we are striving for a balanced perspective on present-day anthropology we should not ignore a concurrent movement toward the integration of biological and sociocultural anthropology into a unified science. In this paper an attempt is made to …
The Biology of Human Adaptability
Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future
Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future. Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Rebecca A. Huss-Ashmore. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.326 pp
Obituary: Edward Eyre Hunt, Jr. (1922–1991)
Anckar, B., Walden, P., and Jelassi, T. (2001), ?The Relationship Between Business Models and Customer Value in Electronic Grocery Shopping: The Case of Nettimarket.com. IAMSR Research Report 3/2001. Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research
Russell W. Newman 1919–1981
The biological race concept as a research tool
In present day research in human biology, the validity of the concept of biological race rests on its utility as a research tool. The methodology of this research into human biological variability is a multidimensional application of the comparative method, utilizing, as one dimension, genetic distance. The body of this paper suggests two generalizing principles for the establishment of genetic distance. Genetic distance may occur due to physical…
Current status of U.S. participation in the International Biological Programme
Subcutaneous fat and age changes in body build and body form in women
The use of bone weight for human identification
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
Racial differences in heat tolerance
The growth and interrelations of skinfolds and brachial tissues in man
New Answers to the Fatigue Problem . Adelaide K. Bullen
Ecology and Anthropology: A Symposium
Calendar of Meetings
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The biological race concept as a research tool
In present day research in human biology, the validity of the concept of biological race rests on its utility as a research tool. The methodology of this research into human biological variability is a multidimensional application of the comparative method, utilizing, as one dimension, genetic distance. The body of this paper suggests two generalizing principles for the establishment of genetic distance. Genetic distance may occur due to physical…
Current status of U.S. participation in the International Biological Programme
Basic Problems in Physical Development in Man in Relation to the Evaluation of Development of Children and Youth [and Comments and Reply]
After a period of passive observation of his own phylogenesis, Homo sapiens has begun to take an active role in the development of his species. Having progressed through the stages of treatment and prophylaxis of disease, he will eventually become capable of directing human development. This stage is of concern to physical anthropology, one of the branches of biomedical science. It is also of particular interest to cultural anthropology, because …
Steps Toward a Unified Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
It is generally recognized that there exists currently a strong trend toward the "fractionation" of anthropology and the "absorption" of its several subdivisions into other disciplines. On the other hand, if we are striving for a balanced perspective on present-day anthropology we should not ignore a concurrent movement toward the integration of biological and sociocultural anthropology into a unified science. In this paper an attempt is made to …
The Biology of Human Adaptability
Human Adaptation to High Altitude: Biocultural mechanisms of adaptation are explored in a population native to the high Andes.
Altitude and growth: A study of the patterns of physical growth of a high altitude Peruvian Quechua population
Data on physical growth were obtained for a sample of 1202 Quechua subjects, aged 2 to 35 years from the district of Nuñoa, Puno, located in the southern highlands (altitude 4000–5500m) of Peru. These data were supplemented by a three‐year longitudinal study of 300 subjects, aged 1 to 22 years. The patterns of physical growth of members of the indigenous population of Nuñoa are characterized by (1) late sexual dimorphism, (2) slow and prolonged g…
Physical Anthropology: Human Variation: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology. James F. Downs and Hermann K. Bleibtreu
Physical Anthropology: Effects of High Altitude on Human Birth: Observations on Mothers, Placentas, and the Newborn in Two Peruvian Populations. Jean McClung
Skin reflectance of Quechua Indians: The effects of genetic admixture, sex and age
The skin reflectance characteristics of a group of Quechua Indians have been described with an emphasis upon the effects of varying degrees of hybridization, sex and age. This group of Peruvian Indians occupied a reflectance range common to that of all other reported groups of South American Indians. Miscegenation with European Whites had a statistically significant although small influence upon skin color. In general males were consistently dark…
Yanomamö: A Multidisciplinary Study. Produced by James V. Neel, Timothy ASCH, and Napoleon CHAGNON
Demographic Studies in Anthropology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Altitude, migration, and fertility in the Andes
In order to examine the relationship between hypoxia and reduced fertility of high Andean populations, a sample of 241 females living in the low-altitude Tambo Valley of Peru was studied. 63 of the subjects were born in the low-altitude valley, 121 were migrants from high altitudes, and 57 were migrants born in low altitudes. The rate of abortion was low among high-altitude subjects before they migrated, but became greater after migrating. It was…
Man in the Andes: A multidisciplinary study of high-altitude Quechua
A Biocultural Approach to Salt Taboos: The Case of the Southeastern United States [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural behavior, when viewed as an extrasomatic adaptation for humans, alters previous interpretations of taboos as harmless placations of the supernatural. If the adaptive premise is true, then one may expect to find that taboos either have, or at one time had, an adaptive significance. This paper examines the salt and salt-containing-food taboos that were prevalent among the Indians in the southeastern United States during the early historic …
The Biology of high altitude peoples
Analyzes the biology of the various groups of people who live at high altitudes.
Environment, migration and health in Southern Peru
Environment, migration and health in Southern Peru
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