Human biology

This book examines the low birth weight and infant mortality in high-altitude Indian region Ladakh.

This book provides evidence that climate change drove Neanderthal extinction, not competition with our own ancestors.

The limits of human evolution are examined by applying different evolutionary concepts.

In this volume, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians share aspects of illness working with the concept of schizophrenia.

A fresh and compelling intervention in the very contentious debate over heritability.

This book contains studies of social behaviour ranging from single-celled organisms to humans, and shows recent progress in these fields.

This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.

Reference work of 13,000 descriptions of terms covering all aspects of human biology and evolution.

An examination of dental studies in archaeology and related disciplines, first published in 2005.

First published in 2005, this text explores human origins and evolution using computer simulation.

This book reveals unexamined assumptions and shows how sociocultural context influences measurement of disease.

This 2005 book presents a panoramic view of the challenges, ethical issues and rewards surrounding biomedical advances in human biology.

This book is based on an ethnography of laboratory practice and explores issues around standardization, naturalisation and diversity.

This book examines the relationships between humans and other primates and the implications for primate conservation.

A timely and comprehensive text on silicon heterostructures, covering physics, modeling techniques and device applications.

A comprehensive and comparative reference work on the permanent and deciduous dentitions of extant primates.

Reconstructs European and Mediterranean climate over the last 20 million years in relation to human evolution.

This text explores why humans, unlike other animals, came to grow old slowly.

Edited overview of the development, function and evolution of vertebrate teeth.

Holistic overview of what we have learnt about HIV/AIDS, and identifies why so many HIV prevention schemes have failed.

An introductory text on human population dynamics from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

This book explores the use of historical and other records to expand the horizons for anthropological research.

Innovative exploration of the theoretical and methodological issues in reconstructing demographic structure from archaeological populations.

This 2002 book provides a cultural and ecological history of European impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

This book focuses on species within the genus Homo to investigate the evolutionary origins of characteristic human patterns.

Popular science tour de force from bestselling authors, on evolution of intelligence, culture and mind.

This book explores adaptability and variation in past and present human populations.

Fascinating and controversial examination of how evolutionary theory sheds light on human nature using reproductive issues as a focus.

This book explores how market forces and economics can help answer fundamental questions of human evolution.

An interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which human biology and culture can affect fertility.

This 2001 book covers motivation for theoretical analysis and present experimental capabilities of electron scattering, with pedagogical examples.

Explores the epidemics of the past with modern epidemiological and computer-modelling.

Landmark discusses the evidence validating fingerprints as a means of personal identification, permanence of the fingerprint characteristics, uniqueness of an assemblage of ridge details, and the variability and classifiable nature of finger patterns - along with such fundamental investigations as biological and racial variations and the inheritance of fingerprint traits.

How do plants make their own food?

Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Human Traits will address the science student human genetics market.

Human Blood Plasma Proteins gives an overview of the proteins found in human blood plasma, with special emphasis on their structure and function and relationship to pathological states and disease.

The Emergence of Humans is an accessible, informative introduction to the scientific study of human evolution.

This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations.

The evolution of the human brain and cognitive ability is one of the central themes of physical/biological anthropology.

Amyloid fibrils are associated with a range of pathological disorders including Alzheimer's Disease, Down's syndrome, diabetes, cardiomyopathies, and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

Many different pathological conditions are currently under investigation as therapeutic targets of purines including cancer, cardiovascular conditions, behavioural disorders, inflammation, immunoregulation, and neuroendocrine function.

The mapping of human genes is proceeding rapidly.

T cells are a specialized population of immune cells that aid the immune system in combating various types of invading pathogens.

Drawing together contributions from a diverse group of international experts in the field, this collection of papers examines the biology and pathology of elastin at the molecular level.

Prominent clinicians and researchers from diverse disciplines discuss the basic cell and molecular biology of steroid action and sex steroids' effects on the nervous and immune systems.

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory.

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory.

This fascinating book draws it subject matter from a range of relevant disciplines that extend from molecular nutrition, nutritional sciences, and nutrition dietetics through to genetics, genomics, and anthropology.

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An essential foundation for the practice of forensic anthropology This text is the first of its level written in more than twenty years.