Reproduction is among the most basic of human biological functions,
both for our distant ancestors and for ourselves, whether we live
on the plains of Africa or in North American suburbs. Our
reproductive biology unites us as a species, but it has also been
an important engine of our evolution. In the way our bodies
function today we can see both the imprint of our formative past
and implications for our future. It is the infinitely subtle and
endlessly dramatic story of human reproduction and its evolutionary
context that Peter T. Ellison tells in "On Fertile Ground,"
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, a leading pioneer in
the field, combines the perspectives of anthropology, stressing the
range and variation of human experience; ecology, sensitive to the
two-way interactions between humans and their environments; and
evolutionary biology, emphasizing a functional understanding of
human reproductive biology and its role in our evolutionary
history.
Whether contrasting female athletes missing their periods and
male athletes using anabolic steroids with Polish farm women and
hunter-gatherers in Paraguay, or exploring the intricate
choreography of an implanting embryo or of a nursing mother and her
child, "On Fertile Ground" advances a rich and deeply satisfying
explanation of the mechanisms by which we reproduce and the
evolutionary forces behind their design.
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