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Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects
Title
Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects / edited by Sarah Elton, Paul O'Higgins.
ISBN
9781420051346 (hardback : alk. paper)
1420051342 (hardback : alk. paper)
Published
Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, c2008.
Physical Description
xviii, 297 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"This volume arose out of the Society for the Study of Human biology and Biosocial Society Symposium 'Medicine and Evolution,' held in York, UK, on December 11-12, 2006"--P. [xiii].
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 26, 2009
Bibliography
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, Nigel Unwin
Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation, and polycystic ovary syndrome / Laurence Shaw, 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, 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, Paul O'Higgins
Would Darwin recognize himself here? / Jonathan Marks.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Hominidae - physiology - Congresses.
Anthropology, Physical - Congresses.
Evolution - Congresses.
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