Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When
and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had …

Two new developments promise to greatly improve our ability to reconstruct the evolution of
the human life cycle: 1. the introduction of the comparative methodology of life history into …

Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and
the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and updated 2005 …

Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

Circadian rhythms influence most of our life activities, notably getting up and going to sleep
every day. The new edition of this book delves into the mechanisms surrounding how these …

The ability to recognize individuals is essential to many aspects of social behaviour, such as
the maintenance of stable social groups, parent–offspring or mate recognition, inbreeding …

A modern human-like sequence of dental development, as a proxy for the pace of life
history, is regarded as one of the diagnostic hallmarks of our own genus Homo,,. Brain size …

Humans have an unusual life history, with an early weaning age, long childhood, late first
reproduction, short interbirth intervals, and long lifespan. In contrast, great apes wean later …

Processing food extensively by thermal and nonthermal techniques is a unique and
universal human practice. Food processing increases palatability and edibility and has been …

Temporal changes in the carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of an animal are an
environmental and behavioral input signal that is recorded into the enamel of developing …