Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives: How Evolution Has Shaped Women's Health

by Wenda Trevathan

Book Overview

Winner of the 2011 W.W. Howells Book Award of the American Anthropological Association

How has bipedalism impacted human childbirth? Do PMS and postpartum depression have specific, maybe even beneficial, functions? These are only two of the many questions that specialists in evolutionary medicine seek to answer, and that anthropologist Wenda Trevathan addresses in Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives.

Exploring a range of women's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195388887
• ISBN13: 9780195388886
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"