Survival of the Sickest
The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
by Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince
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Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age?
Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe?
Why are some people immune to HIV?
Can your genes be turned on — or off?
Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies and our health. By re- examining evolutionary history, Dr Moalem reveals how many of the conditions that are diseases today actually gave our ancestors a leg up in the survival sweepstakes. But Survival of the Sickest doesn't stop there. It goes on to demonstrate just how little modern medicine really understands about human health, and offers a new way of thinking that can help all of us live longer, healthier lives.
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Hemochromatosis, bloodletting, Diabetes, climate change, brown fat, vitamin D, cholesterol, malaria, guinea worms, transposable elements, childhood obesity, cancer cells, Biological Evolution, Diseases, Disease susceptibility, Disease susceptibility--Genetic aspects, Evolution, Genetic aspects, Genetic aspects of Disease susceptibility, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, genetics, Genetic Variation, Human evolution, life sciences, Medical, mirror, Natural selection, Nonfiction, Physiology, science, Survival, Survival--physiology, Variation (Genetics), Diseases and history, Longevity, Medicine, popularShowing 3 featured editions. View all 19 editions?
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Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
2008, Harper, HarperPerennial
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
2007, William Morrow
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in English
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers the Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
2007-01, HarperCollins e-books
Electronic resource
in English
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Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity is a 2007 New York Times Bestselling science book by Sharon Moalem, an evolutionary biologist and neurogeneticist, and Jonathan Prince, senior advisor and speechwriter for the Clinton administration. It was originally titled, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease.
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