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Body by Darwin : how evolution shapes our health and transforms medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Jeremy, 1946- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology)
Human evolution.
Evolutionary genetics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Absent friends
  • How the hygiene hypothesis explains allergies and autoimmune diseases
  • A fine romance
  • How evolutionary theory explains infertility and diseases of pregnancy
  • The downside of upright
  • The relationship between bipedalism and orthopedic illnesses
  • DIY eye
  • How developmental biology cures blindness and rebuts creationism
  • Hopeful monsters
  • Why cancer is almost impossible to cure
  • A problem with the plumbing
  • Why the evolution of coronary arteries makes us prone to heart attacks
  • Score years-and then?
  • How evolution is breathing new life into Moribund Dementia Research.