Book Series
Society for the Study of Human Biology
New & Published Titles:
Medicine and Evolution
Current Applications, Future Prospects
Can an evolutionary perspective be integrated in day-to-day practice and is it of value in medical education and training? If so, when and how? Highlighting… read moreJune 2008 | Hardback: 978-1-4200-5134-6 (CRC Press)
Ageing Well
Nutrition, Health, and Social Interventions
Many current public health actions and policies aimed at older people revolve around the often prevailing view that failing health is a consequence of ageing.… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8493-7474-6 (CRC Press)
Social Information Transmission and Human Biology
Recent research has emphasized that socially transmitted information may affect both the gene pool and the phenotypes of individuals and populations, and that an improved… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-8493-4047-5 (CRC Press)
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The Nature of Difference
Science, Society and Human Biology (PBK)
Unprecedented advances in genetics and biotechnology have brought profound new insights into human biological variation. These present challenges and opportunities for understanding the origins of… read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-8493-2720-9 (CRC Press)
Childhood Obesity
Contemporary Issues
The consequences of childhood obesity are serious and far reaching, with both physical and psychological components that add to its complexity. Childhood Obesity: Contemporary Issues… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-8493-2857-2 (CRC Press)
The Changing Face of Disease
Implications for Society
Disease is an ever-present threat faced by all human societies. Today, this concept has become an influential area of study known as the global burden… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32280-5 (CRC Press)
Human Biology and History
The biology of people in the past is a rapidly expanding field of historical study. Our capacity to understand the biology of historical populations is… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28861-3 (CRC Press)
Forthcoming Titles:
Human Variation: From the Laboratory to the Field
Edited by C.G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Akira Yasukouchi, Stanley Ulijaszek
To be published July 15th 2009