Principles of evolutionary medicine / Peter Gluckman [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gluckman, Peter D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Human evolution.

Medical genetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

A new updated edition of the first integrated and comprehensive textbook to explain the principles of evolutionary biology from a medical perspective and to focus on how medicine and public health might utilise evolutionary biology.

Contents:

Cover; Principles of Evolutionary Medicine; Copyright; Contents; PART 1 Fundamentals of Evolutionary Biology ; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 What is disease? ; 1.2 What evolution is: fundamental principles ; 1.3 Time ; 1.4 Constraints ; 1.5 We are not alone ; 1.6 Culture and gene- culture coevolution

1.7 How evolutionary arguments fit alongside other biological perspectives 1.8 Evolution and medicine ; Key points ; 2 Evolutionary theory ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 What does evolutionary theory explain? ; 2.3 How does evolution work?

2.4 Areas of debate and the limitations of the adaptationist argument 2.5 Conclusion ; Key points ; 3 The molecular basis of variation and inheritance ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Genes and disease ; 3.3. The molecular basis of human genetic variation

3.4 Factors affecting genetic variation 3.5 Single-gene or Mendelian disorders; 3.6 No single genes for common diseases ; 3.7 Epigenetic mechanisms as a cause of variation ; 3.8 Non-genetic inheritance; 3.9 Conclusion ; Key points ; 4 Evolution and development ; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 Development: pre- ordained or plastic? 4.3 Is development important to evolution? ; 4.4 Developmental plasticity ; 4.5 Responses to environmental cues during development ; 4.6 Epigenetic processes and development ; 4.7 Learning and instinct ; 4.8 The evolution of novelty

4.9 Conclusion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-108339-9