New Biological Anthropology
Reframing Aging: Insights from Biology and Culture of Midlife Japanese
1st Edition
By Melissa K. Melby
September 10, 2025
How do we age? Why do we age? How and why does menopause happen? Do different cultures have different approaches and attitudes to, and experiences of, aging and menopause? Reframing Aging: Insights from Biology and Culture of Midlife Japanese uses a biocultural framework to try to answer these ...
Genetic Ancestry: Our Stories, Our Pasts
1st Edition
By Jada Benn Torres, Gabriel A. Torres Colón
May 01, 2022
Genetic Ancestry focuses on the scientific nature and limitations of genetic ancestry testing. Co-authored by a genetic anthropologist and a cultural anthropologist, it examines the social, historical, and cultural dimensions of how people interpret genetic ancestry data. Utilizing examples from ...
The Dialectical Primatologist: The Past, Present and Future of Life in the Hominoid Niche
1st Edition
By Nicholas Malone
October 25, 2021
The Dialectical Primatologist identifies the essential parameters vital for the continued coexistence of hominoids (apes and humans), synthesising primate research and conservation in order to develop culturally compelling conservation strategies required for the facilitation of hominoid ...
The Promise of Contemporary Primatology
1st Edition
By Erin P. Riley
September 10, 2019
This book argues for a contemporary primatology that recognizes humans as integral components in the ecologies of primates. This contemporary primatology uses a broadened theoretical lens and methodological toolkit to study primate behavior and ecology in increasingly anthropogenic contexts and ...
Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past
1st Edition
By Nam C Kim, Marc Kissel
March 15, 2018
Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This book examines the origins and development of human forms of organized violence from an anthropological and archaeological perspective. Kim and Kissel argue that human warfare is qualitatively different from forms of lethal, intergroup ...