Can an evolutionary perspective be integrated in day-to-day practice and is it of value in medical education and training? If so, when and how? Highlighting exciting areas of research into the evolutionary basis of health and disease, Medicine and Evolution: Current Applications and Future Prospects answers these questions and more. I

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Front cover
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Foreword
Preface
The Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Environments, Adaptation, and Evolutionary Medicine: Should We Be Eating a Stone Age Diet?
Chapter 3. Human Protein Requirements and Infection Stress among Young Children at the Origins of Agriculture
Chapter 4. Evolutionary Perspectives on Type 2 Diabetes in Asia
Chapter 5. Seasonality, Climatic Unpredictability, Food Deprivation, and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Chapter 6. Evolution and Endocrinology: The Regulation of Pregnancy Outcomes
Chapter 7. Evolutionary Paediatrics: A Case Study in Applying Darwinian Medicine
Chapter 8. The Role of Helminthes in Human Evolution: Implications for Global Health in the 21st Century
Chapter 9. Nonbizarre Delusions as Startegic Deception
Chapter 10. Practical Aspects of Evolutionary Medicine
Chapter 11. Comparative and Evolutionary Biology in Medical and Dental Education
Chapter 12. Is There a Place for Evolutionary Medicine in UK Medical Eduation?
Chapter 13. Would Darwin Recognize Himself Here?
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