Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects /: current applications, future prospects. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sarah Elton, Paul O'Higgins.
• Other Names: Elton, Sarah; O'Higgins, Paul
• 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, 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 [and others] -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Subjects: 599.93/8; Human evolution -- Congresses; Evolution (Biology) -- Congresses; Medicine -- Congresses; Hominidae -- physiology; Anthropology, Physical; Biological Evolution; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical; Evolution (Biology); Human evolution; Medicine; Congresses; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420051377; 1420051377
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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