TY - BOOK AU - Ellison,Peter T. TI - On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction SN - 9780674036444 AV - QP251 U1 - 612.6 PY - 2001/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Human reproduction KW - Human evolution KW - Natural selection KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3300341 ER -