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A Companion to Moral Anthropology
Wiley 2012; US$ 195.00A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities,... more...
Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution
Bentham Science Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00The book starts from the observation that humans are very different from the other primates. Why are we naked? Why do we speak? Why do we walk upright? Fifty years ago, in 1960, marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy tried to answer this when he announced his so-called aquatic hypothesis: human ancestors did not live in dry savannahs as traditional anthropology... more...
Your Body
John Blake 2007; US$ 9.99We know more about our bodies than ever before, but there remain many unanswered questions. Accessible and endlessly fascinating, this discussion of evolution and the human body reveals which features humans have inherited from fish, amphibian, reptile, four-legged mammal, and primate ancestors; while also exploring how the human body is likely to... more...
Handbook of Anthropometry
Springer 2012; US$ 1,100.00Although its underlying concept is a relatively simple one--the measurement of the human body and its parts--anthropometry employs a myriad of methods and instruments, and is useful for a variety of purposes, from understanding the impact of disease on individuals to tracking changes in populations over time. The first interdisciplinary reference on... more...
The Retreat of Scientific Racism
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 44.00This fascinating study documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars. more...
Die Menschen Macher
Wiley 2012; US$ 21.95Es ist wahrscheinlicher geworden, dass wir zu "MenschenMachern" werden. In ihrem Buch widmen sich Hans-Günter Gassen und Sabine Minol diesem faszinierenden Thema, das uns alle angeht. Sie erörtern die Einzigartigkeit des Menschen und den Widerstreit von Schöpfung und Evolution. Sie führen ein in die fantastische Welt der Literatur?... more...
Your Body
John Blake 2007; US$ 9.99We know more about our bodies than ever before, but there remain many unanswered questions. Accessible and endlessly fascinating, this discussion of evolution and the human body reveals which features humans have inherited from fish, amphibian, reptile, four-legged mammal, and primate ancestors; while also exploring how the human body is likely to... more...
Your Body - The Fish That Evolved
John Blake Publishing 2007; US$ 13.58We know more about our bodies than ever before, but why are there so many unanswered questions? Why do our elbows and knees bend in opposite directions? Why do men and women walk differently? Why do men have nipples? Why is childbirth so painful? Why do we sleepwalk? This book aims to answer these questions and many others as it traces our evolution.... more...
Evolution and the Emergent Self
Columbia University Press 2011; US$ 33.99Raymond L. Neubauer presents a view of nature that describes rising complexity in life in terms of increasing information content, first in genes and then in brains. The evolution of the nervous system expanded the capacity to store information with relatively open-ended programs, making learning possible. Portraying four species with high brain-to-body... more...
Homo Mysterious
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 20.99For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects of being human.Homo Mysterious examines a number... more...









