Evolution in health and disease /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Oxford biology
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=222379 |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing evolutionary thinking for medicine / Stephen C. Stearns, Randolph M. Nesse, and David Haig
- Global spatial patterns of infectious diseases and human evolution / Jean-Fraņçois Guégan, Franck Prugnolle, and Frédéric Thomas
- Medically relevant variation in the human genome / Diddahally R. Govindaraju and Lynn B. Jorde
- Health consequences of ecogenetic variation / Michael Bamshad and Arno G. Motulsky
- Human genetic variation of medical significance / Kenneth K. Kidd and Judith R. Kidd
- Intimate relations : evolutionary conflicts of pregnancy and childhood / David Haig
- How hormones mediate trade-offs in human health and disease / Richard G. Bribiescas and Peter T. Ellison
- Functional significance of MHC variation in mate choice, reproductive outcome, and disease risk / Dagan A. Loisel, Susan C. Alberts, and Carole Ober
- Perspectives on human health and disease from evolutionary and behavioral ecology / Beverly I. Strassmann and Ruth Mace
- The ecology and evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria / Carl T. Bergstrom and Michael Feldgarden
- Pathogen evolution in a vaccinated world / Andrew F. Read and Margaret J. Mackinnon
- The evolution and expression of virulence / Dieter Ebert and James J. Bull
- Evolutionary origins of diversity in human viruses / Paul M. Sharp, Elizabeth Bailes, and Louise V. Wain
- The population structure of pathogenic bacteria / Daniel Dykhuizen and Awdhesh Kalia
- Whole-genome analysis of pathogen evolution / Julian Parkhill
- Emergence of new infectious diseases / Mark Woolhouse and Rustom Antia
- Evolution of parasites / Jacob C. Koella and Paul Turner
- Evolutionary biology as a foundation for studying aging and aging-related disease / Martin Ackermann and Scott D. Pletcher
- Evolution, developmental plasticity, and metabolic disease / Christopher W. Kuzawa [and others]
- Lifestyle, diet, and disease : comparative perspectives on the determinants of chronic health risks / William R. Leonard
- Cancer : evolutionary origins of vulnerability / Mel Greaves
- Cancer as a microevolutionary process / Natalia L. Komarova and Dominik Wodarz
- The evolutionary context of human aging and degenerative disease / Steven N. Austad and Caleb E. Finch.