The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated
approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social
and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some
sub-populations and not others come to be vulnerable, why a disease spreads in one part of
a population and not another, or which gene variants are transmitted across generations,
then a remarkable range of disciplinary perspectives need to be brought together, from the …