Second edition. Edited by Stephen C. Stearns and Jacob C. Koella. 374 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. $180 (cloth); $85 (paper). ISBN 978-0-19-920745-9 (cloth); 978-0-19-920746-6 (paper).
This book introduces an evolutionary approach to medicine andoffers the reader extensive coverage of medical topics to whichevolutionary principles can be applied. The book's 23 chapterswere written by an international team of 47 leading researchersfrom the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland,and New Zealand. This second edition has an extensive, updatedbibliography of more than 1500 references, and the chaptersare organized into five parts: part 1, an introduction to evolutionarythinking for medicine; part 2, "The History and Variation ofHuman Genes"; part 3, "Natural Selection and Evolutionary Conflicts";part 4, "Pathogens: Resistance, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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