Evolution and Medicine

Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary concepts help explain why we remain vulnerable to disease, how pathogens and cancer cells evolve, and how the diseases that affected our evolutionary ancestors have shaped our biology.

About the author

Robert Perlman received an MD and a PhD (Biochemistry) from the University of Chicago and has had a career in academic medicine. He did research and taught at the National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Illinois at Chicago before returning to the University of Chicago. He has carried out research in a variety of fields, including the regulation of gene expression in bacteria and the biology of the sympathetic nervous system. He has been actively involved in medical education for most of his academic career and has taught courses on evolutionary medicine at the University of Chicago for over ten years.

Summary

Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary concepts help explain why we remain vulnerable to disease, how pathogens and cancer cells evolve, and how the diseases that affected our evolutionary ancestors have shaped our biology.

Additional text

The well-researched and documented work includes key up-to-date papers. It makes a nice introduction to this timely topic. Highly Recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Perlman, Robert (Professor Emeritus Perlman, Perlman Robert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2013
• EAN: 9780199661718
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966171-8
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, MEDICAL / Genetics, Medical Genetics, Human biology, Medical Anthropology