Contents; List of Contributors; Part I: Introduction; Part II: The history and variation of human genes; Part III: Natural selection and evolutionary conflicts; Part IV: Pathogens: resistance, virulence, variation, and emergence; Part V: Noninfectious and degenerative disease; References; Index
Summary
A fully revised edition of a volume written by the world's leading authorities on this subject. It discusses how the evolution of humans and their pathogens have generated important medical issues, covering both infectious and degenerative diseases. It presents important ideas that are not yet sufficiently appreciated in the medical community. - ;In this fully revised and updated edition, the editors have integrated a completely new set of contributions from the leading researchers in the field to describe the latest research in evolutionary medicine, providing a fresh summary of this rapidly
