Human Biology

Discover how the individual parts of the human body function and work together: in this accessible and fascinating examination, you can navigate th...

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowne...

A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of the forces driving cancer, we dont necessarily thin...

Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language....

Metabolism, behaviour, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies con...

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic...

Eight years ago, in an unprecedented intellectual endeavor, the Dalai Lama invited Emory University to integrate modern science into the education ...

Our Human Story is a guide to our fossil relatives, from what may be the earliest hominins such as Sahelanthropus, dating back six to seven million...

In Women After All, anthropologist Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on colourf...

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Th...

We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies ...

This is an outstanding collection of articles, all based on original research, giving the volume a fresh feel. Eugenia Georges, Rice University

Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being treated for jinn possession and psychosis in a Danish mosque and in a psychiatric...

This is an outstanding collection of articles, all based on original research, giving the volume a fresh feel. Eugenia Georges, Rice University

The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and nationa...

Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has t...

The author takes an insightful look at an understudied phenomenon: that of ordinary pregnancy. She rightly notes that much scholarship has document...

Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, intro...

The lives of kings, poets, authors, criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture, and for decades anthrop...

As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrializ...

There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughou...

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology cur...

As a scientist, David Linden had devoted his career to understanding the brain processes and behaviors that are common to us all. That is, until a ...

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development...

Break the rules, not the fast with world-renowned biohacker and New York Times bestselling author Dave Asprey. For more than a decade, th...

Neuromorphic and brain-based robotics have enormous potential for furthering our understanding of the brain. By embodying models of the brain on ro...

The contribution of Neandertals to the biological and cultural emergence of early modern humans remains highly debated in anthropology. Particularl...

Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The...

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development...

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development...