【作者简介】 《科学》期刊记者，《自然》期刊和《财富》杂志供稿作家，并为《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等撰写生物学和生物医学专栏。在华盛顿负责生物医学报道近二十年。瓦德曼毕业于斯坦福大学人类生物学专业；于英属哥伦比亚大学医学院学习医学，并以罗兹奖学金从牛津大学国王学院获得医学学位；还拥有哥伦比亚大学新闻学院硕士学位。

Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Swede...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 《科学》期刊记者，《自然》期刊和《财富》杂志供稿作家，并为《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等撰写生物学和生物医学专栏。在华盛顿负责生物医学报道近二十年。瓦德曼毕业于斯坦福大学人类生物学专业；于英属哥伦比亚大学医学院学习医学，并以罗兹奖学金从牛津大学国王学院获得医学学位；还拥有哥伦比亚大学新闻学院硕士学位。

Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Swede...(展开全部)

In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes like the Agri...(展开全部)

A landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease. In a book that illuminates, as never before, the evolutionary story of the human...(展开全部)

A landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease. In a book that illuminates, as never before, the evolutionary story of the human...(展开全部)

In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes like the Agri...(展开全部)

A renowned psychologist unravels the universal from the individual in human development to answer the question: what are we born with and what do we learn? In 1984, Basic published Harvard developmental psychologist Jerome Kagan's The Nature of the Child, a book that challenged many of psychology's most deeply held assumptions about human development-arguing, for example, that ...(展开全部)

In 2003, a Home Office report stated that 68 British children have been abducted that year by a stranger. With 11.4 million children under 16 living in the UK, that works out to a risk of one in 167,647. 158 people in Britain have died from the human variation of mad cow disease yet 12,000 Britons are killed each year by flu and related complications. In the tradition of Malcol...(展开全部)