Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects / edited by Sarah Elton, Paul O'Higgins.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008.
Description
xviii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Series
Society for the Study of Human Biology series ; 48 [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Environments, adaptation, and evolutionary medicine : should we be eating a stone age diet? / Sarah Elton
  • Human protein requirements and infection stress among young children at the origins of agriculture / Stanley J. Ulijaszek
  • Evolutionary perspectives on type 2 diabetes in Asia / Tessa M. Pollard, Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora, and Nigel Unwin
  • Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation, and polycystic ovary syndrome / Laurence Shaw and Sarah Elton
  • Evolution and endocrinology : the regulation of pregnancy outcomes / Virginia J. Vitzthum
  • Evolutionary paediatrics : a case study in applying Darwinian medicine / Helen Ball
  • The role of helminthes in human evolution : implications for global health in the 21st century / A. Magdalena Hurtado ... [et al.]
  • Nonbizarre delusions as strategic deception / Edward H. Hagen
  • Practical aspects of evolutionary medicine / Gillian R. Bentley and Robert Aunger
  • Comparative and evolutionary biology in medical and dental education / M.Christopher Dean
  • Is there a place for evolutionary medicine in UK medical education? / Sarah Elton and Paul O'Higgins
  • Would Darwin recognise himself here? / Jonathan Marks.
ISBN
  • 9781420051346 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1420051342 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008010668
OCLC
213379660
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