Ellison, Peter T.

On Fertile Ground : A Natural History of Human Reproduction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (370 pages)

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.

9780674036444


Human reproduction.
Human evolution.
Natural selection.


Electronic books.

QP251

612.6