Evolutionary Medicine
Evolutionary Medicine Books
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Human biology reflects our long history as hunter-gatherers. For example, to cope with a variable food supply, we evolved the ability to consume extra calories and store them efficiently as stout. Now that most humans live very differently, this adaptation is often a disadvantage. Evolutionary medicine, an exciting new multidisciplinary field, looks at such conflicts between our biological traits and contemporary culture. It provides deep insights into a wide range of aspects of human health and biology, from childhood asthma and infant crying to breast cancer, aging, and menopause. The approach is exposure both causes and treatments and will be an essential aspect of medical research well into the next century. This volume is a comprehensive survey of the field and contains work by such leaders as Paul Ewald, Melvin Konner, and Randolph Nesse. Topics include anxieties and phobias, substance abuse, SIDS, high-blood pressure, obesity, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, sensory disorders, and reproductive disorders including cancers. Helpful as a supplementary textbook for a variety of courses, this book will prove an invaluable resource in medicine, biology, anthropology, and psychology.
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Even as a bit dry, this book provides a fantastic overview of evolutionary medicine and how it applies to clinical medical problems such as asthma, giving birth, tummy pain. Evolutionary Medicine clarifies the “why” behind why diseases occur. It’s seldom purely genetic, with epigenetic and environmental factors playing a key role in most modern chronic medical conditions!
The chapters on tummy pain and giving birth were particularly fascinating in my attitude and offer some fantastic matter-of-fact tips.
Some of the evidence is a bit on the theoretical side (ex: the benefits of elevated IgE levels), but overall very clinically relevant.
Paul 3rd year medical student
paultheo2004@yahoo.ca
Rating: 5 / 5
This book applies Darwin’s theory of evolution to medicine and that’s very exciting. It’s exciting because the theory of evolution turns out to be a framework with impressive explanatory power in the area of health and disease. Why do babies in modern Western societies show more excessive crying than infants of !Kung San hunter-gatherers? What makes many women that give birth in modern high-tech hospitals still unsatisfied with the administer? Why do so many modern women get breast cancer? Evolutionary medicine proposes answers, sometimes controversial, but certainly nearly everlastingly worth considering. Why only four stars then? Perhaps it’s because the field is still maturing but I plotting only six of the eighteen chapters of the book showed clear arguments, high-quality writing, and didn’t require a Ph.D. in biochemistry to follow the details. (I liked the chapters about evolutionary perspectives on infant crying, sudden infant death syndrome, obstetrics, nutrition, psychiatry, and breast cancer). And finally, readers should keep in mind that “Evolutionary Medicine” is a university textbook. For a more accessible introduction into this exciting new field they should read Nesse and Williams’ “Why We Get Sick”.
Rating: 4 / 5