Human biology

The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing.

Population Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases is the first comprehensive survey of this rapidly developing field.

This novel, transdisciplinary work explains how perturbations (defined as strong disturbances or deviations to a system) can affect the population dynamics of social animals, including ourselves.

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous.

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous.

Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history.

Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history.

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce and transmit culture is radically changing.

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce and transmit culture is radically changing.

Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research.

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly.

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly.

The measurement of metabolic rates is central to important questions in many areas of physiological research.

To my knowledge.

To my knowledge.

How do plants, animals, and humans manage to survive and adapt to the urban environment?

Our sense of smell - or olfaction as it is technically known - is our most enigmatic sense.

Our sense of smell - or olfaction as it is technically known - is our most enigmatic sense.

Venous Ulcers, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive synthesis of evidence-based recommendations and the highest level of expertise from a leading group of doctors, which is a fundamental constituent for the appropriate management of nonhealing venous wounds in everyday practice.

This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, owing to social selection pressures.

The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans.

The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans.

Is human nature something that the natural and social sciences aim to describe, or is it a pernicious fiction?

Is human nature something that the natural and social sciences aim to describe, or is it a pernicious fiction?

This new eighth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent progress in the fields of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, with particular expansion to the areas of research design and plant and animal development.

Clinicians and scientists are increasingly recognising the importance of an evolutionary perspective in studying the aetiology, prevention, and treatment of human disease; the growing prominence of genetics in medicine is further adding to the interest in evolutionary medicine.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a respiratory disease caused primarily by infection with the bacterium Bordetella pertussis.

Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.

Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.

The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years.

The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years.

Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine is a comprehensive collection of essays by leading experts in the field, and provides a timely reassessment of the biopsychosocial approach in psychiatry.

Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine is a comprehensive collection of essays by leading experts in the field, and provides a timely reassessment of the biopsychosocial approach in psychiatry.

For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection.

For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection.

The purpose of this book is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology.

The purpose of this book is to present a new mechanistic theory of mutation-driven evolution based on recent advances in genomics and evolutionary developmental biology.

Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine.

Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine.

John Dupre explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society.

Primate Sexuality provides an authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings.

Is sharing food such an everyday, unremarkable occurrence?

In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field.

Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all.

What is epidemiology?

Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers?

What is epidemiology?

The secrets of our genetic heritage are finally being unlocked.

Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all.

Reticulate Evolution and Humans is the first book to describe the effect of genetic exchange on the origin and evolution of our own species as well as those species with which we have and continue to interact closely, both evolutionarily and culturally.