Medicine and evolution
Subtitle: current applications, future prospects
By: edited by Sarah Elton, Paul O'Higgins.
Contributors: Elton, Sarah.; O'Higgins, Paul.
Series: Society for the Study of Human Biology series -- 48
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781420051346
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882.; Human evolution -- Congresses.; Evolution (Biology) -- Congresses.; Medicine -- Congresses.; Hominidae -- physiology -- Congresses.; Anthropology, Physical -- Congresses.; Evolution -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Environments, adaptation, and evolutionary medicine : should we be eating a stone age diet? / Sarah Elton; title: Human protein requirements and infection stress among young children at the origins of agriculture / Stanley J. Ulijaszek; title: Evolutionary perspectives on type 2 diabetes in Asia / Tessa M. Pollard, Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora, and Nigel Unwin; title: Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation, and polycystic ovary syndrome / Laurence Shaw and Sarah Elton; title: Evolution and endocrinology : the regulation of pregnancy outcomes / Virginia J. Vitzthum; title: Evolutionary paediatrics : a case study in applying Darwinian medicine /  Helen Ball; title: The role of helminthes in human evolution : implications for global health in the 21st century / A. Magdalena Hurtado ... [et al.]; title: Nonbizarre delusions as strategic deception / Edward H. Hagen; title: Practical aspects of evolutionary medicine / Gillian R. Bentley and Robert Aunger; title: Comparative and evolutionary biology in medical and dental education /  M.Christopher Dean; title: Is there a place for evolutionary medicine in UK medical education? / Sarah Elton and Paul O'Higgins; title: Would Darwin recognise himself here? / Jonathan Marks.