Physical anthropology and its aims

Physical Anthropology

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder after Alzheimer's disease. Due to the complex etiology of PD, there is possibility that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in PARKIN gene could be associated with the disease and lead to the pathogenesis by genoenvironmental interactions. Role of PARKIN polymorphisms as risk factors varies in diff...

Physical Anthropology and Gender Issues

History of Physical Anthropology

Yearbook of Physical Anthropology

Our understanding of primate evolution is ultimately based on patterns of phyletic relationship and morphological change documented in the fossil record. Stratophenetic interpretation of living and fossil primates yields an objective alternative to the arbitrary scala naturae assumed implicitly in traditional comparative biology. Fossils provide an outline of primate history constraining compar...

Motivations and Physical Aims of Algebraic QFT

We present illustrations which show the usefulness of algebraic QFT. In particular in low-dimensional QFT, when Lagrangian quantization is not available or is useless (e.g. in chiral conformal theories), the algebraic method is beginning to reveal its strength. This work is dedicated to the memory of Claude Itzykson