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.

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Introduction: My Family and Other Mammals
Chapter 1 : The Descent of Man('s Gonads)
Chapter 2 : Life on the Edge of Mammaldom
Chapter 3 : Y, I'm Male
Chapter 4 : The Mammalian Birds and Bees
Chapter 5 : The Next Generation
Chapter 6 : Afterbirth Before Birth
Chapter 7 : The Milky Way
Chapter 8 : Kids, Behave!
Chapter 9 : Bones, Teeth, Genes and Trees
Chapter 10 : It's Getting Hot in Here, Put Your Coat On
Chapter 11 : Scents and Sensibility
Chapter 12 : A Multilayered Brain Teaser
Chapter 13 : This Mammalian Life
Afterword: Mammals
Selected Reading
Acknowledgement
Index