title: Biological aspects of human migration and mobility.
abstract: This paper reviews how migration, both geographical and social, impacts on variation in some human biological traits. Migration and mobility are considered in relation to anthropometric traits and indices, psychometric traits, health, disease and nutrition, temperature regulation and metabolism, mental health and gene flow. It is well known that migration is important in disease transmission but, as this paper demonstrates, migration can have both positive and negative impacts on both donor and recipient populations for a wide range of human traits.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Archaeology and Anthropology , University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK.
authors.forename: C G N
authors.initials: CGN
authors.lastname: Mascie-Taylor
authors.affiliation: b Department of Human Biology , University of Wroclaw , Wroclaw , Poland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krzyżanowska
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry; D051456:Gene Flow; D063426:Human Migration; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype
keywords: Migration; anthropometric and psychometric traits; disease, nutrition and gene flow; mobility; physical and mental health