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Human Ecology - MB110P07
Title: Ekologie člověka
Czech title: Ekologie člověka
Guaranteed by: Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics (31-110)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 157
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Vladimír Sládek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Martin Hora, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Sládek, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Sedlak, Ph.D. (29.09.2021)

Influence of abiotic, biotic and civilisation factors on human health. Geography of diseases. Epidemiology. Influence of environmental factors on human variability, ontogenetic development and human evolution. Biological and reproductive social and cultural adaptation on the environment. Role of the man in ecosystems and ecology of nutrition. Ecogenetics.
Literature - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Lenka Dupejová (05.03.2019)

Bates DG. (2004). Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politics. 3rd ed. Pearson.

Moran, E. F. (2008). Human adaptability: Introduction to ecological anthropology. 3rd Edition ed. Westview Press Inc.,U.S., New York.

Schutkowski, H. (2006). Human Ecology: Biocultural Adaptations in Human Communities. Berlin: Springer.

Stanford, C., Allen, J.S. & Antón, S.C. (2006). Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Marlowe, F.W., 2005. Hunter‐gatherers and human evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 14, 54-67.

Moran, E., 2018. Human Adaptability, Student Economy Edition: An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology. Routledge.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Petr Sedlak, Ph.D. (29.09.2021)

Zkouška: Zkouška ekologie člověka proběhne formou písemného testu. K výběru budou čtyři odpovědi, z nichž jen jedna bude správná. 

Hodnocení testu:

100 - 90% výborně

89 - 80% velmi dobře

79 - 70% dobře

69 - méně % nevyhověl

Syllabus -
Last update: prof. Mgr. Viktor Černý, Dr. (01.10.2012)

1) Introduction - human ecology, adaptation and adaptability

2) Quaternary Period - evolution of the climate, nature and culture

3) Subsistence strategy I: hunter-gatherers

4) Subsistence strategy II: horticulturalists

5) Subsistence strategy III: agriculturalists

6) Subsistence strategy IV: pastoralists

7) Adaptability in the arctic zones

8) Humans and the adaptation to lower temperature

9) Adaptability in higher altitudes

10) Humans and adaptation to hypoxia

11) Adaptability in the deserts

12) Humans and solar radiation

 
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