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Reproduction and adaptation /
"In the space of one generation major changes have begun to take place in the field of human reproduction. A rapid increase in the control of fertility and the understanding and treatment of sexual health issues have been accompanied by an emerging threat to reproductive function linked to incr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;
59. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Reproduction and environment / Alan S. McNeilly
- 2. Genetic damage and male reproduction / Michael Joffe
- 3. The microenvironment in health and cancer of the mammary gland / John P. Wiebe
- 4. The energetic cost of physical activity and regulation of reproduction / Darna L. Dufour
- 5. Energetic cost of gestation and lactation in humans / Prakash Shetty
- 6. Adaptive maternal, placental and fetal responses to nutritional extremes in the pregnant adolescent: lessons from sheep / Jacqueline M. Wallace
- 7. Growth and sexual maturation in human and non-human primates: a brief review / Phyllis C. Lee
- 8. The evolution of post-reproductive life: adaptionist scenarios / Lynnette Leidy Sievert
- 9. Analysing the characteristics of the menstrual cycle in field situations in humans: some methodological aspects / Jean-Christophe Thalabard, Laurence Joubin, Lyliane Rosetta and C.G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
- 10. An insidious burden of disease: the pathological role of sexually transmitted diseases in fertility / Geoff P. Garnett
- 11. Family planning and unsafe abortion / Anna Glasier
- 12. Global sexual and reproductive health: responding to the needs of adolescents / Molly Secour-Turner, Linda H. Bearinger and Renee Sieving
- 13. Understanding reproductive decisions / Andrew Hinde.