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On Fertile Ground : A Natural History of Human Reproduction.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (370 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674036444
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On Fertile GroundDDC classification:
  • 612.6
LOC classification:
  • QP251
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Two Births -- Surviving the First Cut -- A Time to Be Born -- The Elixir of Life -- Why Grow Up? -- Balancing Act -- The Arc of Life -- The Body Builders -- The Journey and the Procession -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
Summary: Ranging from the latest achievements of modern fertility clinics to the lives of subsistence farmers in the rain forests of Africa, this book offers both a remarkably broad and a minutely detailed exploration of human reproduction. Ellison combines the perspectives of anthropology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
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Intro -- Contents -- Two Births -- Surviving the First Cut -- A Time to Be Born -- The Elixir of Life -- Why Grow Up? -- Balancing Act -- The Arc of Life -- The Body Builders -- The Journey and the Procession -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Index.

Ranging from the latest achievements of modern fertility clinics to the lives of subsistence farmers in the rain forests of Africa, this book offers both a remarkably broad and a minutely detailed exploration of human reproduction. Ellison combines the perspectives of anthropology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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