Screen LibraryEvidence-based evolutionary medicine /
"A groundbreaking, evidence-based text to the growing field of evolutionary medicine"--Provided by publisher.
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Wiley,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"A groundbreaking, evidence-based text to the growing field of evolutionary medicine"--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 232 pages, 10 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118838372 1118838378 |
| Index Number: | RB152 |
| CLC: | R36 |
| Call Number: | R36/T677 |
| Contents: | A brief history of evolutionary thinking -- Outlining the major transitions in the history of life -- One central mystery : why did eukaryotes only evlove once? -- A levels-of-selection view of evolutionary physiology -- The cell as the smallest functional unit of biology/physiology -- Development of tissues and organs -- When homeostasis fails -- Wnt signaling during development -- Integrated regulation of homeostasis : vascular, nervous, endocrine, neuroendocrine, autonomic -- Endogenous and exogenous mechanisms for healing -- Systems biology as recapitulation of ontogeny and phylogeny -- Terminal addition as physiologic homeostasis and regeneration, or evolutionary medicine -- Phanton limbs, imagination and epigenetics -- Man's place in the universe -- Evolution, deception, and public health. |