Discusses the history of modern embryology, and provides insight on how cells know their position in the embryo, evolution, development of the brain, the processes of regeneration, growth, and aging

Product Description: Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals and groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and within and against sociopolitical and historical contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)