Human biology books

Tradition recognises five social sciences: anthropology, economies, social psychology, sociology, and political...  Read More >>

twenty-two anthropometric characters recorded every six months or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a mixed...  Read More >>

An investigation that offers an impetus for various conceptions of person hood and human health. It works through...  Read More >>

Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library...  Read More >>

Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention is the first volume to address traumatic stress from a...  Read More >>

Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, an eminent neurologist offers unprecedented insight into...  Read More >>

Drawing on strange and thought-provoking case studies, an eminent neurologist offers unprecedented insight into...  Read More >>

V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field--so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the Marco Polo of...  Read More >>

Drawing on both the results of recent arhaeological research as well as anthropological theory, leading experts...  Read More >>

A discussion of the historical archaeology of one of the largest cities in the world following four centuries of...  Read More >>

Employs historical archaeological evidence to demonstrate how polite rituals reproduced the social and material...  Read More >>

Drawing data from a classic region for Paleolithic research in Europe, this book explores how early modern humans...  Read More >>

The study of human diet brings together researchers from diverse backgrounds ranging from modern human nutrition...  Read More >>

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It provides: (1) a comprehensive review of how evolution has worked with a focus on socio-cultural evolution, (2)...  Read More >>

The Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project, a multiyear program undertaken from the late 1970s through the...  Read More >>

Church missions played a key role in colonisation. This work provides the first archaeological examination of a...  Read More >>

Nonhuman primates have played critical roles in biomedical research, and they are among the few animals whose use...  Read More >>

Where the state controls the distribu­ tion of resources, itself inevitably becomes party to conflicts whose bone...  Read More >>

The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of...  Read More >>

Cultural selection theory explains why certain cultures or cultural ele­ ments spread, possibly at the expense of...  Read More >>

This text provides an overview of late-1990s developments in the fields of physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology....  Read More >>

The essays in this volume, while exploring bioethical issues bearing on death and dying, the use of scarce resources,...  Read More >>

Royal Instructions for Scientific Exploration . 33 The Voyage of La Perouse: Part 1, From Brest to Monterey Bay...  Read More >>

Due to its theoretical and methodological framework, the present study provides evidence that the embodiment of...  Read More >>