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Ancient bodies, modern lives : how evolution has shaped women's health
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- Creator
- Wenda Trevathan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- vii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0199750548, 019045279X, 1282564080, 0195388887, 9786612564086, 9780195388886
- OCLC
- ocn449868332, ocn609861658
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Are we grown up yet? -- Vicious cycles -- Getting pregnant: why can't everyone just get along? -- Staying pregnant -- Welcome to the world -- The greasy, helpless one-hour-old human newborn -- Women are defined by their breasts -- But women are more than breasts -- If reproduction is what it's all about, why does it stop? -- What good are old women? quite a lot, thank you -- Implications for women's health in the 21st century--and preventing the epidemiological collision
Subjects
- Women -- Health and hygiene.
- Evolution (Biology)
- Women's Health.
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- Biological Evolution.
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- Reproductive Physiological Phenomena.
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