Liam Drew is a writer, former neurobiologist and mammal. He has a PhD in sensory biology from University College London, and spent twelve years researching the neural and genetic basis of schizophrenia, the biology of pain and the birth of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain at Columbia University, New York and at UCL. His writing has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Slate and the Guardian. He is director of NeuWrite London, a London subsidiary of 'NeuWrite: a collaborative working group for scientists, writers, and those in between'. He lives in Kent with his wife and two daughters.@liamjdrew

A splendid evolutionary study ... Drew is a wry guide to wonders such as the evolution of the scrotum and the epic journey of marsupial newborns.

• Introduction: My Family and Other MammalsChapter 1 : The Descent of Man(’s Gonads)Chapter 2 : Life on the Edge of MammaldomChapter 3 : Y, I’m MaleChapter 4 : The Mammalian Birds and BeesChapter 5 : The Next GenerationChapter 6 : Afterbirth Before BirthChapter 7 : The Milky WayChapter 8 : Kids, Behave!Chapter 9 : Bones, Teeth, Genes and TreesChapter 10 : It’s Getting Hot in Here, Put Your Coat OnChapter 11 : Scents and SensibilityChapter 12 : A Multilayered Brain TeaserChapter 13 : This Mammalian LifeAfterword: MammalsSelected ReadingAcknowledgementIndex

Liam Drew is a writer, former neurobiologist and mammal. He has a PhD in sensory biology from University College London, and spent twelve years researching the neural and genetic basis of schizophrenia, the biology of pain and the birth of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain at Columbia University, New York and at UCL. His writing has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Slate and the Guardian. He is director of NeuWrite London, a London subsidiary of 'NeuWrite: a collaborative working group for scientists, writers, and those in between'. He lives in Kent with his wife and two daughters.@liamjdrew

A splendid evolutionary study ... Drew is a wry guide to wonders such as the evolution of the scrotum and the epic journey of marsupial newborns.

• Introduction: My Family and Other MammalsChapter 1 : The Descent of Man(’s Gonads)Chapter 2 : Life on the Edge of MammaldomChapter 3 : Y, I’m MaleChapter 4 : The Mammalian Birds and BeesChapter 5 : The Next GenerationChapter 6 : Afterbirth Before BirthChapter 7 : The Milky WayChapter 8 : Kids, Behave!Chapter 9 : Bones, Teeth, Genes and TreesChapter 10 : It’s Getting Hot in Here, Put Your Coat OnChapter 11 : Scents and SensibilityChapter 12 : A Multilayered Brain TeaserChapter 13 : This Mammalian LifeAfterword: MammalsSelected ReadingAcknowledgementIndex