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Western Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Biological and...
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(Hardcover - Jun 2, 2008)
by Tessa M. Pollard
Sales Rank: 723036
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Hardcover: 236 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; illustrated edition edition June 2, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521851807
ISBN-13: 978-0521851800
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
"Throughout our history as a species, our biology and our cultural practices have adapted to changing environments, and that process is ongoing. Still, Western Diseases persuades us that we can only understand health and disease in an evolutionary context. Alas, it also reminds us that you can't fool Mother Nature--or Papa Evolution." - Robert Dorit, American Scientist
Product Description
As a group, western diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, allergies and mental health problems constitute one of the major problems facing humans at the beginning of the 21st century, particularly as they extend into poorer countries. An evolutionary perspective has much to offer standard biomedical understandings of western diseases. At the heart of this approach is the notion that human evolution occurred in circumstances very different from the modern affluent western environment and that, as a consequence, human biology is not adapted to the contemporary western environment. Written with an anthropological perspective and aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates taking courses in the ecology and evolution of disease, Tessa Pollard applies and extends this evolutionary perspective by analysing trends in rates of western diseases and providing a new synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.
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