Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects - Elton, Sarah; O'Higgins, Paul. (Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2008)
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 Nu??n??ez-de la Mora, Nigel Unwin -- Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation, and polycystic ovary syndrome / Laurence Shaw, 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 ... [et al.] -- Nonbizarre delusions as strategic deception / Edward H. Hagen -- Practical aspects of evolutionary medicine / Gillian R. Bentley, Robert Aunger -- Comparative and evolutionary biology in medical and dental education / M. Christopher Dean -- Is there a place for evolutionary medicine in UK medical education? / Sarah Elton, Paul O'Higgins -- Would Darwin recognise himself here? / Jonathan Marks.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Anthropology, Physical; Biological Evolution; Hominidae