Mismatch : why our bodies no longer fit our world / Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson.
Mismatch : why our bodies no longer fit our world / Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson.
Mismatch : why our bodies no longer fit our world / Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N576.58/3
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English
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xi, 285 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2006.
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"Our basic design is informed by genes largely selected and adapted for life in our Pleistocene past. But our individual design is fine-tuned by information about the environment picked up by the fetus via the placenta, which affects our development and sets our metabolic levels and life strategy. One impact of our growing mismatch is that these tu...
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Mismatch : why our bodies no longer fit our world / Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N576.58/3
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74VKK4dvmLed
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ISBN
0192806831 (hbk.)
9780192806833 (hbk.)
DDC
613 576.58
MMS ID
991021981009702626
