Evolution in Health and Disease

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 368 pages
• Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
• Edition: 2nd Edition January 10, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0199207461
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0199207466
• Book Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Review
The second edition of "Evolution in Health and Disease"(S.C. Stearns and J.C. Koella, editors) Provides a timely update that should help to further energize this interdisciplinary paradigm[] The coverage in "Evolution in health and disease" is broad, ranging from infectious to chronic disease and microbial genomics to life-history theory. "EVolution in health and disease"provides compelling evidence that and evolutionary perspective can lead to important and novel insights into issues relevant to human health. Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Product Review
`Review from previous edition 'Provides intriguing reading.'' J.C. von Vaupel Klein, Koninklijke Brill NV, 1999

`'Evolution in Health and Disease is likely to set a benchmark for the many contributions that will certainly follow.'' Mark Pagel, Science

`'This is a fascinating book, with contributions from many leading researchers, which should interest biologists, medics and veterinarians alike. It is the state-of-the-art text for evolutionary medicine and provides an great platform for the development of this important subject.'' Mark E.J. Woolhouse, Trends in Microbiology

`'This book and others like it should help evolutionary thinking permeate medicine more rapidly'' Parasitology Today