Epidemiological research since the 1980s has highlighted the consequences of early life
adversity, particularly during gestation and early infancy, for adult health (the “Barker …

Epigenetics is a burgeoning area of biomedical research into the mechanisms by which
genes are regulated—how the activity of producing proteins is controlled. Although …

Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between Blackness and animality in the
history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an …

In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with
findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging …

A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as
insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought. Postindustrial …

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of
the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases …

Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically described,
interpreted, and explained change, and argues that change has been under-theorised. The …

This article is an account of the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and
neurosciences. Against an arid rhetoric of 'interdisciplinarity', it calls for a more expansive …

The duality of the skeleton as both a biological and cultural entity has formed the theoretical
basis of bioarchaeology. In recent years bioarchaeological studies have stretched the early …

In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new
forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material …