human biology

Book Reviews

Frances Ashcroft: Life at the Extremes
The Science of Survival
Ron Barrett, George J. Armelagos: An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections*
- subsistence, settlement, and social organisation
William H. Calvin: The Cerebral Code
Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
Kenneth J. Carpenter: Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B
A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco Cavalli-Sforza: The Great Human Diasporas*
The History of Diversity and Evolution
Lise Eliot: Early Intelligence*
How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
Mel Greaves: Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy*
- cellular biology and human evolution, history and society
G.A. Harrison, et al.: Human Biology
An Introduction to Human Evolution, Variation, Growth and Adaptability
Richard Lewontin: Human Diversity**
- the realities of human biological variation
James T. McIlwain: An Introduction to the Biology of Vision
- the anatomy and neuroscience of the eye and the brain
John Napier: Hands
- structure, function, and evolution; social and cultural roles
Shane O'Mara: In Praise of Walking
The New Science of How We Walk and Why It's Good for Us
Steven Rose: From Brains to Consciousness
Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind
Arthur P. Wolf, William H. Durham: Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo*
The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century