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Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick
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9780471352617
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John Wiley & Sons
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Medical Study & Revision Guides & Reference Material
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Binding
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Hardcover
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Year
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2002
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Description
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 EvolutionCause of adaptive failureresulting disease or problemPre-lifeEnvironmental poisonsCertain birth defectsSingle cell (bacteria and amoeba-like)Viral infectionColds/flu/HIVMorula (sponge-like)Cellular stressCancerChordatePhysical stressBack painFishExcess dietary saltHypertension/heart diseaseAmphibianTobacco smokeLung cancer/emphysemaLower primateExcess dietary sugarDiabetes mellitusHigher primateVitamin C deficiencyScurvyApeExcess dietary proteinGoutHomo sapiensReduced dietary varietyNutritionaldiseases/food allergies
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Author Biography
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.
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