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22%OFFNoel T. Boaz - Evolving Health - 9780471352617 - V9780471352617
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Evolving Health

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Description for Evolving Health Hardcover. Introduces major health findings from a new field of research known as evolutionary medicine, which uses the history of human evolution to explain the origins of diseases and ailments such as cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and ulcers. Includes important prevention and treatment information. Num Pages: 256 pages, tables, notes, index. BIC Classification: VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.

Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage — which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows:

Level of Evolution / Cause of adaptive failure / resulting disease or problem

Pre-life / Environmental poisons / Certain birth defects

Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like) / Viral infection / Colds/flu/HIV

Morula (sponge-like) / Cellular stress / Cancer

Chordate / Physical stress / Back pain

Fish / Excess ... Read more / Hypertension/heart disease

Amphibian / Tobacco smoke / Lung cancer/emphysema

Lower primate / Excess dietary sugar / Diabetes mellitus

Higher primate / Vitamin C deficiency / Scurvy

Ape / Excess dietary protein / Gout

Homo sapiens / Reduced dietary variety / Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471352617
SKU
V9780471352617
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Noel T. Boaz
NOEL BOAZ, Ph.D., Biological Anthropologist, is the founder and Director of the International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research and Professor of Anatomy at Ross University School of Medicine. He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, the leading textbook in biological anthropology, and two popular science books, Quarry and Eco Homo.

Reviews for Evolving Health
"...many of the book's points are excellent and would yield delight if effectively delivered to the public and to the clinicla specialists...a gem..."(human-nature.com, 11 June 2002) "...rich in facts and good quality high-fibre solid information..." (Evolving Health Focus, August 2002)

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