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Body by Darwin : how evolution shapes our health and transforms medicine
- Author
- Taylor, Jeremy, 1946- author.
- Title
- Body by Darwin : how evolution shapes our health and transforms medicine / Jeremy Taylor.
- Format
- E-Book
- Published
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- URL
- Access for [All Campuses] - (Available on campus and off campus with authorized logon)
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references. Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- Evolution (Biology) Human evolution. Evolutionary genetics.
- ISBN
- 9780226059914 electronic bk. 022605991X electronic bk. 9780226059884 022605988X 022605991X