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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Survival of the Sickest A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Author: Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince
How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help bring down your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on -- or off? — Survival of the Sickest reveal...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780739487389
ISBN-10: 0739487388
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 267
Edition: 1st
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4.8 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: William Morrow
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Easy-reading genetic explanations of evolution of humans and disese organisms. Explanations of why some inherited affictions provided a method of survival when extremes of environment or plagues cause harsh tests for survival. The survive and reproduce imperative of all organisms may have ignored affictions that were adult onset, i.e. after reproduction. Common sense examples easily understood by the non-scientifically inclined.
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Easy-reading genetic explanations of evolution of humans and disese organisms. Explanations of why some inherited affictions provided a method of survival when extremes of environment or plagues cause harsh tests for survival. The survive and reproduce imperative of all organisms may have ignored affictions that were adult onset, i.e. after reproduction. Common sense examples easily understood by the non-scientifically inclined.
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Excellent and interesting look at how disease may have effected the evolution of mankind. Highly recommended for anyone, but health professionals will probably be most amused/enlightened.
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Find out why deadly diseases are bred into our genetic code and learn the answers to such provocative questions as:

Can a person rust to death?
Can sunglasses cause sunburns?
Can the tanning salon lower cholesterol?
Who gets drunk faster -- Europeans or Asians? And why?
Why are some Americans immune to the HIV virus?
Do sexually transmitted diseases make you more promiscuous?
Can cats cause schizophrenia?
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A provocative book that is on the cutting edge of gene research. Written for the layman.


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