Selection

Two attractive additions to the Cambridge University Press series on biological anthropology complement one another. Human Variability and Plasticity (£35, ISBN 0 521 45399 2) points out that most human traits, including the genes, adjust to environmental stimuli, which account for much of their variability; the effects of migration in particular have provided a good deal of the evidence. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology (£35, ISBN 0 521 43295 2) reviews …