Brenna Hassett is a biological anthropologist whose career has taken her around the globe, researching the past using the clues left behind in human remains. She has a PhD from University College London, where she is currently a researcher, and is also a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London. Brenna specialises in analysing human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. Her research focuses on the evidence of health and growth locked into teeth to investigate how children grew (or didn’t) across the world and across time.@brennawalks

Superb … and often hilarious. Growing Up Human is what happens when science meets an unusually entertaining and uninhibited writer … should be appreciated by anyone pregnant, planning to be pregnant, or who has ever had a child or been one.

• Chapter 1: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: An IntroductionChapter 2: Pop! Goes the Weasel: Life History and Why it MattersChapter 3: Two Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed: Making More MonkeysChapter 4: A Froggy Would A-Courting Go: How Weird is Monogamy?Chapter 5: Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie: Conception and Fertility and FatChapter 6: Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can: the Joys of GestationChapter 7: Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose: Having a BabyChapter 8: See-Saw, Margery Daw: Cultural Adaptations to BirthChapter 9: Bye, Baby Bunting: Caring for a Child the Old-Fashioned WayChapter 10: Old Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard: the Magic of MilkChapter 11: Hey Diddle Diddle: the Cultural Life of Milk

Brenna Hassett is a biological anthropologist whose career has taken her around the globe, researching the past using the clues left behind in human remains. She has a PhD from University College London, where she is currently a researcher, and is also a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London. Brenna specialises in analysing human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. Her research focuses on the evidence of health and growth locked into teeth to investigate how children grew (or didn’t) across the world and across time.@brennawalks

Superb … and often hilarious. Growing Up Human is what happens when science meets an unusually entertaining and uninhibited writer … should be appreciated by anyone pregnant, planning to be pregnant, or who has ever had a child or been one.

• Chapter 1: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: An IntroductionChapter 2: Pop! Goes the Weasel: Life History and Why it MattersChapter 3: Two Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed: Making More MonkeysChapter 4: A Froggy Would A-Courting Go: How Weird is Monogamy?Chapter 5: Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie: Conception and Fertility and FatChapter 6: Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can: the Joys of GestationChapter 7: Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose: Having a BabyChapter 8: See-Saw, Margery Daw: Cultural Adaptations to BirthChapter 9: Bye, Baby Bunting: Caring for a Child the Old-Fashioned WayChapter 10: Old Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard: the Magic of MilkChapter 11: Hey Diddle Diddle: the Cultural Life of Milk

Brenna Hassett is a biological anthropologist whose career has taken her around the globe, researching the past using the clues left behind in human remains. She has a PhD from University College London, where she is currently a researcher, and is also a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London. Brenna specialises in analysing human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. Her research focuses on the evidence of health and growth locked into teeth to investigate how children grew (or didn’t) across the world and across time.@brennawalks

Superb … and often hilarious. Growing Up Human is what happens when science meets an unusually entertaining and uninhibited writer … should be appreciated by anyone pregnant, planning to be pregnant, or who has ever had a child or been one.

• Chapter 1: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: An IntroductionChapter 2: Pop! Goes the Weasel: Life History and Why it MattersChapter 3: Two Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed: Making More MonkeysChapter 4: A Froggy Would A-Courting Go: How Weird is Monogamy?Chapter 5: Georgie Porgie, Pudding and Pie: Conception and Fertility and FatChapter 6: Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can: the Joys of GestationChapter 7: Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose: Having a BabyChapter 8: See-Saw, Margery Daw: Cultural Adaptations to BirthChapter 9: Bye, Baby Bunting: Caring for a Child the Old-Fashioned WayChapter 10: Old Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard: the Magic of MilkChapter 11: Hey Diddle Diddle: the Cultural Life of Milk