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Anthropoecological investigations of the Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University

Fedotova T.K.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Fedotova Tatiana K, Ph.D., D.Sc., ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7750-7924, e-mail: tatiana.fedotova@mail.ru

Abstract

Main trends and achievements of anthropoecological investigations at Research Institute of Anthropology, MSU, are reviewed. Among the most important achievements of Russian anthropoecology are the following: large-scaled monitoring of modern populations of different landscape zones of the USSR, investigation of the longevity phenomena in Abkhazia; cоnception of an adaptive type as the norm of biological morphofunctional reaction to environment; conception of the age-specific osteomorphic status as an integral characteristics of population health status in different regions; conception of biological (skeletal) age as personal health criteria; creation of a new branch in human morphology – geroanthropology, which describes standard age changes in adults and aging individuals; conception of «human personal time» as a specific property of age morphology space; investigation of children’s growth characteristics in megalopolis.

Keywords

anthropology, anthropoecology, human ecology, adaptive type, age osteomorphic status, biological age, geroanthropology, «human personal time», anthropoecology of megapolis

Цит.: Fedotova T.K. Anthropoecological investigations of the Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2011; 1/2011; с. 16-24