Medicine and Evolution (eBook, ePUB)

Current Applications, Future Prospects
Redaktion: Elton, Sarah; O'Higgins, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Can an evolutionary perspective be integrated in day-to-day practice and is it of value in medical education and training? If so, when and how? Highlighting exciting areas of research into the evolutionary basis of health and disease, Medicine and Evolution: Current Applications and Future Prospects answers these questions and more. I

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040204986
• Artikelnr.: 72524752

Autorenporträt

Sarah Elton, Paul O¿Higgins

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Environments, Adaptation, and Evolutionary Medicine, Should
We Be Eating a Stone Age Diet? Human Protein Requirements and Infection
Stress among Young Children at the Origins of Agriculture. Evolutionary
Perspectives on Type 2 Diabetes in Asia, Seasonality. Climatic
Unpredictability, Food Deprivation, and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
Evolution and Endocrinology, The Regulation of Pregnancy Outcomes.
Evolutionary Paediatrics, A Case Study in Applying Darwinian Medicine. The
Role of Helminthes in Human Evolution, Implications for Global Health in
the 21st Century. Nonbizarre Delusions as Strategic Deception. Practical
Aspects of Evolutionary Medicine. Comparative and Evolutionary Biology in
Medical and Dental Education. Is There a Place for Evolutionary Medicine in
UK Medical Education? Would Darwin Recognize Himself Here? Index.