Medicine and evolution [electronic resource] : current applications, future prospects / editor(s), Sarah Elton, Paul O'Higgins.
Material type: TextSeries: Society for the Study of Human Biology series ; 48Publication details: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2008. Description: 320 pISBN: 9781420051377 (ebook : PDF)Subject(s): Human evolution -- Congresses | Evolution (Biology) -- Congresses | Medicine -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)"A CRC title."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 N�u�nez-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.] -- Non-bizarre 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 / 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 -- Prospects for evolutionary medicine / George Ellison and Sarah Elton.
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