On Fertile Ground : : A Natural History of Human Reproduction / / Peter T. Ellison.
Reproduction is among the most basic of human biological functions, both for our distant ancestors and for ourselves, whether we live on the plains of Africa or in North American suburbs. Our reproductive biology unites us as a species, but it has also been an important engine of our evolution. In t...
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Ellison, Peter T., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut On Fertile Ground : A Natural History of Human Reproduction / Peter T. Ellison. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2003 1 online resource (368 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TWO BIRTHS -- SURVIVING THE FIRST CUT -- A TIME TO BE BORN -- THE ELIXIR OF LIFE -- WHY GROW UP? -- BALANCING ACT -- THE ARC OF LIFE -- THE BODY BUILDERS -- THE JOURNEY AND THE PROCESSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Reproduction is among the most basic of human biological functions, both for our distant ancestors and for ourselves, whether we live on the plains of Africa or in North American suburbs. Our reproductive biology unites us as a species, but it has also been an important engine of our evolution. In the way our bodies function today we can see both the imprint of our formative past and implications for our future. It is the infinitely subtle and endlessly dramatic story of human reproduction and its evolutionary context that Peter T. Ellison tells in On Fertile Ground. Ranging from the latest achievements of modern fertility clinics to the lives of subsistence farmers in the rain forests of Africa, this book offers both a remarkably broad and a minutely detailed exploration of human reproduction. Ellison, a leading pioneer in the field, combines the perspectives of anthropology, stressing the range and variation of human experience; ecology, sensitive to the two-way interactions between humans and their environments; and evolutionary biology, emphasizing a functional understanding of human reproductive biology and its role in our evolutionary history. Whether contrasting female athletes missing their periods and male athletes using anabolic steroids with Polish farm women and hunter-gatherers in Paraguay, or exploring the intricate choreography of an implanting embryo or of a nursing mother and her child, On Fertile Ground advances a rich and deeply satisfying explanation of the mechanisms by which we reproduce and the evolutionary forces behind their design. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) Human evolution. Human reproduction. Natural selection. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674036444?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674036444 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674036444/original |
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