Principles of Evolutionary Medicine Gluckman Peter Centre for Human Evolution Adaptation and Disease Liggins Institute The University of Auckland New Zealand
Principles of Evolutionary Medicine Gluckman Peter Centre for Human Evolution Adaptation and Disease Liggins Institute The University of Auckland New Zealand Evolutionary science is critical to an…
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Principles of Evolutionary Medicine Gluckman Peter Centre for Human Evolution Adaptation and Disease Liggins Institute The University of Auckland New Zealand
Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core discipline by medical and public health professionals. This revised and updated second edition of the first comprehensive textbook of evolutionary medicine explains the principles of evolutionary biology from a medical perspective and focuses on how medicine and public health might utilise evolutionary thinking. Advances in the field of genomics, epigenetics, developmental biology, and epidemiology have led to the growing realisation that incorporating evolutionary thinking is essential for medicine to achieve its full potential.
It is written to be accessible to a broad range of readers, whether or not they have had formal exposure to evolutionary science.The general structure of the second edition remains unchanged, with the initial six chapters providing a