Western diseases : an evolutionary perspective / by Tessa Pollard.
Western diseases : an evolutionary perspective / by Tessa Pollard.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N616.071/18
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English
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223 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. An evolutionary history of human disease -- 3. Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease -- 4. The thrifty genotype versus thrifty phenotype debate: efforts to explain between population variation in rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease -- 5. Reproducti...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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England
Date Published
2008.
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Western diseases : an evolutionary perspective / by Tessa Pollard.
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Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 54.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-216) and index.
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N616.071/18
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74VM4Kr3gEN3
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0521851807 (hbk.)
0521617375 (pbk.)
9780521617376 (pbk.)
9780521851800 (hbk.)
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616.071
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991001375909702626
