Human Biology

Despite wide acceptance that the attributes of living creatures have appeared through a cumulative evolutionary process guided chiefly by natural s...

There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a ...

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards t...

"Remarkably comprehensive, this set contains articles dealing with both current aspects and historical development of human genomic analysis, inter...

“Bethea’s book conveys the story of an amazingly ambitious attempt to preserve the humanities while also saving the future of disadvantaged high sc...

“Bethea’s book conveys the story of an amazingly ambitious attempt to preserve the humanities while also saving the future of disadvantaged high sc...

This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the s...

In The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences eleven scholars widely known for their interdisciplinary work investigate one of the most striking devel...

The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of ke...

How human beings have adapted to a wide range of stressful environments – extreme temperatures, solar radiation, high altitudes, and nutritional st...

In our fast-paced world of technology and conveniences, the biological origins of women's inequality can be forgotten. This book offers a richer un...

Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick...

In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to th...

Become body literate with Breasts: An owner's guide, the first in an enlightening series of books that democratise health for a new generation of r...

This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circu...

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in...

Evolution and Psychology is a critical exploration of how evolutionary approaches can be used to understand the human mind and behaviour. Writte...

Evolution is among the most central and most contested of ideas in the history of anthropology. This book charts the fortunes of the idea from the ...

Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations...