Human Biology

Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groun...

Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women’s reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologi...

A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and “ethical” concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human gen...

In this collection of essays, the four branches of radical cognitive science—embodied, embedded, enactive and ecological—will dialogue with perform...

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the ...

One can think of the average height reached at a particular age by individuals as the historical record of their nutritional experience. Medical r...

In the last three years, a flood of new scientific findings - driven by revelations discovered in the human genome - has provided compelling new an...

Our understanding of human origins has been revolutionized by new discoveries in the past two decades. In this book, three leading paleoanthropolog...

Love is a little word with a universe of meanings and has engaged people's interest throughout human history. The need to give and receive love lie...

Down from the Trees: Man’s Amazing Transition from Tree-Dwelling Ape Ancestors covers the evolution of man from tree-dwelling ape to Homo sapiens a...

First Published in 1993. Since health psychology is concerned with the universal values of life and death, well­being and suffering, it might be ex...

First Published in 1992.  The reader of this volume will see how a decade of new work has remade ethnomedicine into one of the livelier and more pr...

There is a significant amount of research that substantiates the connection between social support/relationships and the development, onset, and/or...

Widely seen as evolution’s founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolu...

Widely seen as evolution’s founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolu...

150,000 years of human existence have passed, and yet what do we really know about our history before the advent of writing? Some of the most momen...

Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Human Biology Two books ...

Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "f...

'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and co...

In a stimulating synthesis of cognitive science, anthropology, and linguistics, Philip Lieberman tackles the fundamental questions of human nature:...

Seven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that...

The great debates about human origins, cultural history, and human nature confront us with two opposing images of human beings. One view emphasizes...

This is a landmark introduction to the facts and hopes of gene therapy: an exciting, albeit controversial, technique that could bring about a new a...

Even childbirth is affected by globalization - and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospita...

The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious--or more fraught with paradox--than in the bur...