Human Biology

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...

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, whilst re...

Beautifully illustrated, detailed and clear, this is a wonderful introduction to human reproduction - Professor Alice RobertsFollow the amazing tra...

The International Bestseller, as featured in The Times Fat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ. Fat has become a dirty word, but we know so l...