Human Biology

Reproduction is among the most basic of human biological functions, both for our distant ancestors and for ourselves, whether we live on the plains...

Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human—not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, ...

Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions ...

These original essays, which combine theoretical argument with empirical observation, constitute a state-of-the-art platform for future research in...

An essential foundation for the practice of forensic anthropology This text is the first of its level written in more than twenty years. It serves...

Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of microorganisms living in the mouth, on the skin, in the gut. They help digest our foo...

Instant Guides are packed with essential information and useful facts covering a wide variety of subjects from survival skills to stargazing. Porta...

When Roy Richard Grinker's daughter Isabel was diagnosed with autism in 1994, he knew nothing about it. It was considered rare, occurring in about ...

Reconstructing Human Origins is the most authoritative, comprehensive, and popular paleoanthropology textbook available. Respected anthropologists ...

"Deep China" investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anth...

"Deep China" investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anth...

So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menst...

Since ancient times, asymptomatic bone variations have been studied in many different disciplines. In radiology, for example, they enable the diffe...

In The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram, medical anthropologist Janelle S. Taylor analyzes the full sociocultural context of ultrasound technology...

Robert Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread—in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified human beh...

Sex has no history, but sexual science does. Starting in the late nineteenth century, people all over the world suddenly began to insist that under...

This volume, the first in a series devoted to the paleoanthropological resources of the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia, studies Homo erectus, a cl...

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. B...

In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. ...

In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. ...

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. B...

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Bone is ubiquitous and versatile, and uniquely repairs itself without scarring. However, we rarely see bone in its living state—and even then, most...

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