.".".snappy and informative; it's a must-buy and there's nothing near it on the market at the moment." Stephen Hart, University College London
"I found it very informative and helpful. There was loads of useful detail that wasn't covered by the other PhD books I've been reading." Miki Grahame, Prospective PhD Student"
A PhD is one of the most ambitious and exciting things you can do in your life. Upon successful completion you will be a doctor - and a world authority in your chosen area.
Each year several thousand graduate students apply to do a PhD at universities in the...
.".".snappy and informative; it's a must-buy and there's nothing near it on the market at the moment." Stephen Hart, University College London
This book] brings together high-quality papers from many different fields: endocrinology, evolutionary biology, demography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology... It can be seen as a practical tool for researchers in the field, and it provides a large amount of data across a wide range of populations and helps to find a common ground between theories emerging from different fields. It is the kind of book that will never end up in the last dusty row of your shelves because you will continually refer to it, picking up here and there empirical and theoretical data for the next...
This book] brings together high-quality papers from many different fields: endocrinology, evolutionary biology, demography, economics, psychology,...
From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), infant mortality is high in natural fertility/mortality populations, and human females have a long post-reproductive lifespan. These features conspire to make child raising very burdensome. Mothers frequently defray these costs with paternal help (not usual in other ape species), although this...
From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth inte...
