Bidhan Kanti Das

• Vidyasagar University

To understand genetic structure of human population, population geneticists, medical geneticists and anthropologists traditionally use correlation and heritability as a method despite some limitations. The study of inbreeding effect on quantitative traits may provide a useful approach. The basic premise is that increased homozygosity is expected in...

Conservation policies to protect wildlife and biodiversity ignore the basic survival needs and imperatives of local people. This article aims to show how conservation policies trigger floods in protected areas, especially those located in the foothills of the Himalayan mountain ranges, leading to huge damage to plantations and habitats as well as s...

Increased mortality and morbidity including congenital malformations among the offspring of consanguineous marriages have been widely reported in human populations from different parts of the world. However, there are few studies on the effect of the intensity of inbreeding and different degrees of inbreeding on mortality and morbidity. The present...

People of rural India especially forest dwellers extract non-timber forest produces (NTFPs) from forest for both commercial as well as consumption purposes. Various studies showed that poorest forest dwellers are highly dependent on NTFPs to sustain daily requirements of family needs. In protected areas, people’s access to collect NTFPs has been ei...

In study an attempt has been made to discern the trends of anthropological research over the years through literature survey and it was found from the articles published in three important journals in Anthropology that the biocultural studies have been showing an upward trend on global level.