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Principles of Evolutionary Medicine (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Principles of Evolutionary Medicine (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated
human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core discipline
by medical and public health professionals. Advances in the field
of genomics, epigenetics, developmental biology, and epidemiology
have led to the growing realisation that incorporating evolutionary
thinking is essential for medicine to achieve its full potential.
This revised and updated second edition of the first comprehensive
textbook of evolutionary medicine explains the principles of
evolutionary biology from a medical perspective and focuses on how
medicine and public health might utilise evolutionary thinking. It
is written to be accessible to a broad range of readers, whether or
not they have had formal exposure to evolutionary science. The
general structure of the second edition remains unchanged, with the
initial six chapters providing a summary of the evolutionary theory
relevant to understanding human health and disease, using examples
specifically relevant to medicine. The second part of the book
describes the application of evolutionary principles to
understanding particular aspects of human medicine: in addition to
updated chapters on reproduction, metabolism, and behaviour, there
is an expanded chapter on our coexistence with micro-organisms and
an entirely new chapter on cancer. The two parts are bridged by a
chapter that details pathways by which evolutionary processes
affect disease risk and symptoms, and how hypotheses in
evolutionary medicine can be tested. The final two chapters of the
volume are considerably expanded; they illustrate the application
of evolutionary biology to medicine and public health, and consider
the ethical and societal issues of an evolutionary perspective. A
number of new clinical examples and historical illustrations are
included. This second edition of a novel and popular textbook
provides an updated resource for doctors and other health
professionals, medical students and biomedical scientists, as well
as anthropologists interested in human health, to gain a better
understanding of the evolutionary processes underlying human health
and disease.
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