Human Biology

Gold Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book AwardsRunner-up, 2024 History category, San Francisco Book FestivalRunner-up, 2024 General Non-Fiction, New...

Few things are as interesting to us as our own bodies and, by extension, our own identities. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in ...

Spanning over half a century of investigation into Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of a broad range of ...

This book introduces readers to the fascinating interaction of specialized gamete cells, forming the early embryo and a blueprint of new life. Read...

Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated...

This book provides a synthetic overview of all evidence concerning the evolution of the morphology of the human pelvis, including comparative anato...

The birthplace of modern humans, Africa, has the highest genetic diversity in the world, yet it remains vastly understudied. With biomedical resear...

Working with human remains raises a whole host of ethical issues, from how the remains are used to how and where they are stored. Over recent years...

The definitive guide to the development, form, function, and disorders of the human body.The most detailed popular reference book on human anatomy ...

Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pa...

In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, pres...

'A big-picture forecast of how medicine stands on the threshold of a revolution that will radically change all of our lives' The TimesWelcome to a ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023***Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023*...

Serving as both an accessible textbook and an original synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, Emerging Infections traces the social and enviro...

Insightful and breathtaking. Yuval Noah Harari, author of SapiensBold and sweeping. Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsProfoundly thought-pro...

Few things come more naturally to us than sexor so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would a...

PART OF THE ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- What is pain and can we measure it?- What is chronic pain and can we treat it?- Can we make pain pleasa...

Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity introduces students to key concepts in critical thinking across the four core br...

A dazzling follow-up to Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cell...

Why would a researcher be willing to subject themselves to scorching heat, frigid conditions, or swarms of Anopheles mosquitoes? For author Michael...

Why would a researcher be willing to subject themselves to scorching heat, frigid conditions, or swarms of Anopheles mosquitoes? For author Michael...

Discover the 8 steps you can take to optimise your brain for better mood, memory, sleep and stress resilience. T...