Physical Anthropology

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

A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly b...

In the last decade, a dramatic increase in overweight individuals and obesity has been reported in both developed and underdeveloped countries. Non...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a highly regulated system that maintains brain allostasis. BBB achieves its main function by transporting blood to...

Disorder and order are among the principles through which the articles in this issue are connected. Peter Jan Margry grasps the exuberant excesses ...

Furry and wide-eyed, lorises and pottos are small, nocturnal primates inhabiting African, Asian and Southeast Asian tropical and subtropical forest...

I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath. Brilliant young writer Ellena ...

Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other ...

As climate change transforms the landscape of the ice sheet in Greenland and future industries prepare to extract precious metals and petroleum, Je...

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

Physical anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and ...

During the last decades television shows have turned chefs into celebrities, and food and cooking have become an integrated part of the lifestyle a...

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the glob...