Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 Reproductive cancers
- 6 Reproductive function, breastfeeding and the menopause
- 7 Asthma and allergic disease
- 8 Depression and stress
- 9 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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 Reproductive cancers
- 6 Reproductive function, breastfeeding and the menopause
- 7 Asthma and allergic disease
- 8 Depression and stress
- 9 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- References
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- Chapter
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- Western DiseasesAn Evolutionary Perspective, pp. 173 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008