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

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Trevathan, Wenda
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 260 pages) : illustrations
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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.
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ISBN
9780199750542 (electronic bk.)
0199750548 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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