The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective

by Allison Galloway, Mary E. Morbeck, Adrienne L. Zihlman

Book Overview

A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the space of a few decades, but the shape of her life has been strongly influenced by 50 million years of primate evolution and more than 100 million years of mammalian evolution. How the individual female plays out the stages of her life--from infancy, through the reproductive period, to old age--and how these stages have been formed by a long evolutionary process, is the theme of this collection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069102748X
• ISBN13: 9780691027487
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.5"