The development of conceptual framework in physiological anthropology
The development of conceptual framework in physiological anthropology
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10.2114/jpa.24.289
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2005-07-01
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Sato, Masahiko
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Sato, Masahiko
从国际上看，直到20世纪60年代末，生理人类学的发展一直呈马赛克式结构。一些马赛克的碎片开始创造这门科学的理论概念的重要元素。生理人类学的研究一般包括个体生物学过程和群体生物学过程。通过使用这些过程，生理人类学家已经认识到个体思维的重要性和本质主义概念（如理想人）的不足，现在推断所有种群都是多型的。生理人类学家已经完善了他们的科学的概念框架，并组成了一组表征它的关键词，这些关键词是技术适应性，环境适应性，功能潜力，全身协调性和生理多型性。这些关键词相互依存，不形成任何正交关系。
From an international viewpoint, the physiological anthropology had always developed in a mosaic-like structure until the end of the nineteen-sixties. Some of the pieces of the mosaic then started to create significant elements of the theoretical concepts of this science. Generally speaking, research in physiological anthropology consists of the process of individual biology and the process of population biology. Through using these processes, physiological anthropologists have come to realize the importance of individual thinking and the inadequacy of essentialistic concept such as the ideal man, and now infer that all populations are polytypic. Physiological anthropologists have refined the conceptual framework of their science and composed a set of keywords characterizing it. These are technological adaptability, environmental adaptability, functional potentiality, whole body coordination, and physiological polytypism. These keywords are mutually interdependent and do not form any orthogonal relations.