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Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives - How Evolution Has Shaped Women's Health (Hardcover)
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Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives - How Evolution Has Shaped Women's Health (Hardcover)
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Winner of the 2011 W.W. Howells Book Award of the American
Anthropological Association
How has bipedalism impacted human childbirth? Do PMS and postpartum
depression have specific, maybe even beneficial, functions? These
are only two of the many questions that specialists in evolutionary
medicine seek to answer, and that anthropologist Wenda Trevathan
addresses in Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives.
Exploring a range of women's health issues that may be viewed
through an evolutionary lens, specifically focusing on
reproduction, Trevathan delves into issues such as the medical
consequences of early puberty in girls, the impact of migration,
culture change, and poverty on reproductive health, and how fetal
growth retardation affects health in later life. Hypothesizing that
many of the health challenges faced by women today result from a
mismatch between how their bodies have evolved and the contemporary
environments in which modern humans live, Trevathan sheds light on
the power and potential of examining the human life cycle from an
evolutionary perspective, and how this could improve our
understanding of women's health and our ability to confront health
challenges in more creative, effective ways.
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