Evolution and Medicine

The well-researched and documented work includes key up-to-date papers. It makes a nice introduction to this timely topic. Highly Recommended.

Autorentext
Robert Perlman received an MD and a PhD (Biochemistry) from the University of Chicago and has had a career in academic medicine. He did research and taught at the National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Illinois at Chicago before returning to the University of Chicago. He has carried out research in a variety of fields, including the regulation of gene expression in bacteria and the biology of the sympathetic nervous system. He has been actively involved in medical education for most of his academic career and has taught courses on evolutionary medicine at the University of Chicago for over ten years.

Klappentext

Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary concepts help explain why we remain vulnerable to disease, how pathogens and cancer cells evolve, and how the diseases that affected our evolutionary ancestors have shaped our biology.

Inhalt

1. Evolution and medicine ; 2. Human demography, history, and disease ; 3. Evolutionary genetics ; 4. Cystic fibrosis ; 5. Life histories and the evolutionary biology of aging ; 6. Cancer ; 7. Host-pathogen coevolution ; 8. Sexually transmitted diseases ; 9. Malaria ; 10. Gene-culture coevolution: lactase persistence ; 11. Man-made diseases