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SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN BIOLOGY Although there are many scientific societies for the furtherance of the biological study of man as an individual, there has been no organization in Great Britain catering for those (such as physical anthropologists or human geneticists) concerned with the biology of human populations. The need for such an association was made clear at a Symposium at the Ciba Foundation in November 1957, on "The Scope of Physical Anthropology and Human Population Biology and their Place in Academic Studies". As a result the Society for the Study of Human Biology was founded on May 7th, 1958, at a meeting at the British Museum (Natural History). The aims of the Society are to advance the study of the biology of human populations and of man as a species, in all its branches, particularly human variability, human genetics and evolution, human adaptability and ecology. At present the Society holds two full-day meetings per year—a Symposium (usually in the autumn) on a particular theme with invited speakers, and a scientific meeting for proffered papers. The papers given at the Symposia are published and the monographs are available to members at reduced prices. Persons are eligible for membership who work or who have worked in the field of human biology as defined in the aims of the Society. They must be proposed and seconded by members of the Society. The subscription is £2. 10s. per annum (this includes the Society's journal Human Biology) and there is no entrance fee. Applications for membership should be made to Dr. G. A. Harrison, Hon. General Secretary, Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford.
Symposia, Volume
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY I, 1958: The Scope of Physical Anthropology and Its Place in Academic Studies, edited by D. F.
Volume
II, 1959: Natural Selection in Human Populations, edited
ROBERTS and J. S. WEINER (out
by
Volume
III, i960:
Volume
IV, 1961:
Volume
V, 1963:
Volume
VI, 1963:
D.
F.
ROBERTS and
G.
A.
of print).
HARRISON.
Pergamon Press {£1). Human Growth, edited by J. M. TANNER. Pergamon Press (members 10s. 6d.). Genetical Variation in Human Populations, edited by G. A. HARRISON. Pergamon Press (members £1). Dental Anthropology, edited by D. R. BROTHWELL. Pergamon Press (members 25s.). Teaching and Research in Human Biology, edited by G. A. HARRISON. Pergamon Press.
SYMPOSIA OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN BIOLOGY
Volume VI
TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN HUMAN BIOLOGY
Edited by
G. AINSWORTH HARRISON
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PREFACE has been a dramatic increase of interest in H u m a n Biology in Britain since the meeting at the Ciba Foundation London on " T h e scope of physical anthropology and its place in academic studies" in 1957 and the subsequent Foundation of the Society for the Study of H u m a n Biology in the following year. Research in the field has expanded both in intensity and in scope, a number of universities have instituted courses in H u m a n Biology at various levels, and many other proposals for advancing the subject, not only in universities but also in schools, are now being considered. It, therefore, seemed appropriate that the scope of the subject should be re-examined and the many new developments reviewed, and a meeting of the Society was held for this