Human biology

"e;Mek Some Noise"e;, Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity.

This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today.

This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs.

This volume, the first in a series devoted to the paleoanthropological resources of the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia, studies Homo erectus, a close relative of Homo sapiens.

Review of brain evolution in primates including humans.

Benoît Dubreuil offers a naturalist account of the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution.

Aimed at graduate students, this book explores some of the core phenomena in non-equilibrium statistical physics.

This book provides an overview of developmental anomalies, disorders and intersex conditions.

This book contains both published and previously unpublished research on spider monkeys, for academic researchers and graduate students.

Benoît Dubreuil offers a naturalist account of the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution.

Integrates medical and evolutionary data on the role of body fat in human biology, including the current obesity epidemic.

Challenging current theories of how modern humans emerged, this book explores how people travelled from Africa to Australia in the Pleistocene.

Argues that international community can exist, and examines the possibilities for peaceful relations between states.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and biological anthropology and to biomedical researchers studying sleep medicine.

This book chronicles the development of three classic theories within vision research, from the 17th century to today, focusing on duplicity theory.

Integrates medical and evolutionary data on the role of body fat in human biology, including the current obesity epidemic.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and biological anthropology and to biomedical researchers studying sleep medicine.

This book chronicles the development of three classic theories within vision research, from the 17th century to today, focusing on duplicity theory.

Elliott Sober explores how the concept of evidence applies to creationism, natural selection and common ancestry.

A synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.

A valuable reference source, bringing together a variety of the most accomplished dental researchers.

Volume detailing the effects of the molecular revolution on anthropological genetics and how it redefined the field.

Analysis of the individual and collective experience of and response to trauma from a wide range of perspectives.

Originally published in 2006, this book provides in-depth guidelines for designing a field project on stress.

This book is devoted to the study of children''s skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts.

First published in 2006, this is a comprehensive review of the health, demography and population genetics of Caribbean populations of African descent.

A rapprochement between anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics incorporating cultural and biological motivation.

This volume is a review of methods used in human growth research.

Reviews the reasons for and the nature of great ape intelligence and its implications for human intelligence.

Science and Ethics examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science.

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.