Evolutionary medicine and health
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: [edited by] Wenda R. Trevathan, E.O. Smith, James J. McKenna.
Contributors: Trevathan, Wenda.; Smith, Euclid O.; McKenna, James J. 1948-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195307061; 9780195307054
Subjects: Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation; Human evolution; Medicine -- Philosophy; Disease -- etiology -- Essays; Evolution -- Essays; Epidemiologic Factors -- Essays; Humans -- Essays; Philosophy, Medical -- Essays
Genres: Essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of evolutionary medicine / Wenda Trevathan, E. O. Smith, and James J. McKenna; title: Human evolution, diet, and nutrition: when the body meets the buffet / Bethany L. Turner ... [et al.]; title: Diabesity and Darwinian medicine: the evolution of an epidemic / Leslie Sue Lieberman; title: To eat, or what not to eat: a critique of the official Norwegian dietary guidelines / Iver Mysterud ... [et al.]; title: Cow's milk consumption and health: an evolutionary perspective / Andrea S. Wiley; title: Not by bread alone: the role of psychosocial stress in age at first reproduction and in health inequalities / James S. Chisholm and David A. Coall; title: Early life effects on reproductive function / Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora and Gillian R. Bentley; title: Impaired reproductive function in women in western and westernizing populations: an evolutionary approach / Tessa M. Pollard and Nigel Unwin; title: Should women menstruate? an evolutionary perspective on menstrual-suppressing oral contraceptives / Lynnette Leidy Sievert; title: An evolutionary perspective on premenstrual syndrome: implications for investigating infectious causes of chronic disease / Caroline Doyle, Holly A. Swain Ewald, and Paul W. Ewald; title: The possible role of eclampsia/preeclampsia in the evolution of human reproduction / Pierre-Yves Robillard ... [et al.]; title: Breastfeeding and mother-infant sleep proximity: implications for infant care / Helen Ball and Kristin Klingaman; title: Why words can hurt us: social relationships, stress, and health / Mark V. Flinn; title: Why are we vulnerable to acute mountain sickness? / Cynthia M. Beall; title: Evolution and modern behavioral problems: the case of addiction / Daniel H. Lende; title: After dark: the evolutionary ecology of human sleep / Carol M. Worthman; title: Evolutionary medicine and obesity: developmental adaptive responses in human body composition / Jack Baker ... [et al.]; title: The developmental origins of adult health: intergenerational inertia in adaptation and disease / Christopher W. Kuzawa; title: An evolutionary perspective on the causes of chronic diseases: atherosclerosis as an illustration / Paul W. Ewald; title: Genes, geographic ancestry, and disease susceptibility: applications of evolutionary medicine to clinical settings / Douglas E. Crews and Linda M. Gerber; title: From ancient seas to modern disease: evolution and congestive heart failure / E. Jennifer Weil; title: Evolution at the intersection of biology and medicine / Stephen Lewis; title: The importance of evolution for medicine / Randolph M. Nesse.