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Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by Frenchmen medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an…

A comprehensive reference on the taxonomy and distribution in time and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals, covering the Eocene to the Holocene, with individual maps marking locations. This title is also available as…

This book is is open access which means you have free and unlimited access. A comprehensive account of Big Data Research and Innovation and the impacts realized in data ecosystems. Insights, lessons learnt and frameworks for big data including…

This book introduces the most ancient and commonest mammalian life form, which is nonetheless largely overlooked – the muridoids, i.e., animals with mouse-like body structure. There are approximately two thousand mouse-like species, or about a third…

I made the important decision to manage a Special Issue, because I believe it to be extremely important to focus on children’s and adolescents’ physiological and psychological development. I aimed to collect research that investigates the role of…

This book offers a broad perspective on marine mammal species and populations considered to be most at risk due to human activities. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the essential biology and ecology of marine mammals to assess the…

InTheMessageoftheQur’an,aninfluentialEnglishtranslationofandcommentaryontheQuran,MuhammadAsaddiscussesthejinn.CitingclassicalArabphilologists,heexplainsthatthetermjinnsignifiesbeingsthatare‘“concealedfrom[man’s]senses,”i.e., things, beings, or forces…

This open access book explores techniques for working in the field of immunogenetics, i.e. fundamental and translational research into the adaptive immune receptor repertoire. Many chapters are dedicated to lab protocols, bioinformatics, and…

This reprint focuses on field studies aimed at unraveling the complex networks created by interactions between parasites and hosts in a given ecosystem. Since most transboundary diseases have been propagated from the wilderness to anthropized areas,…

Animals are all around us. We overlap with them in environments across the globe, which leads to myriad interactions, including shared infectious and parasitic diseases. Such diseases, known as zoonoses, are the focus of this book. Within its pages,…