Proceedings of the Australasian Society for Human Biology Population, migration and diversity - Abstracts of papers presented at the 17th Annual Scientific Meeting of the ASHB in Auckland, New Zealand, 7-10 December 2003 - Abstracts

This meeting, which focuses on human biology, contains 48 meeting abstracts written in English. Wide ranging topics include clinical human studies on body abnormalities such as cranial asymmetry, muscular development, infectious disease, pregnancy complications and stress. Non-clinical antropological studies covered include human origin and distribution, bipediality, population genetics,human evolution and language. The many geographical regions covered include Australasia, Pacific Ocean Islands, Europe, Asia and South America. While most studies are primarily concerned with humans, other species include wallaby, mouse, sweet potato, bottle gourd, chimpanzee, mite and mosquito.