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Author Trevathan, Wenda.

Title Ancient bodies, modern lives : how evolution has shaped women's health / Wenda Trevathan.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  613.04244 T728a 2010    ---  Available
Description vii, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-248) and index.
Contents Are we grown up yet? -- Vicious cycles -- Getting pregnant: why can't everyone just get along? -- Staying pregnant -- Welcome to the world -- The greasy, helpless one-hour-old human newborn -- Women are defined by their breasts -- But women are more than breasts -- If reproduction is what it's all about, why does it stop? -- What good are old women? quite a lot, thank you -- Implications for women's health in the 21st century--and preventing the epidemiological collision.
Subject Women -- Health and hygiene.
Evolution (Biology)
ISBN 9780195388886 (hardcover)
0195388887 (hardcover)
Standard No. AU@ 000044778078
CDX 11048001

 
    
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