In this fascinating, provocative, passionate, funny, endlessly entertaining work, renowned Pulitzer Prize winning author and scientist Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the ...

This book offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance.

This volume offers a translation of Kant's pioneering contribution to the discipline of anthropology.

Relates the author's DNA-guided quest for his ancestry, which took him through time and across continents, learning lessons about evolution, genetics, and the amazing diversity of human culture along the way.

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This book traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas.

The aim of the ICF classification is to provide a unified and standard language and framework for the description of health and health-related states.

From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain is an account of the making of a large part of the American landscape following European settlement.

Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors (source ...