Mismatch
Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies
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2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-280683-3 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-280683-3 (ISBN)
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Brings together the scientific research in evolutionary biology, development, medicine, anthropology and ecology. This book addresses how we might intervene a potential health time-bomb.
We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty and old age. Bringing together the latest scientific research in evolutionary biology, development, medicine, anthropology and ecology, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, both leading medical scientists, argue that many of our problems as modern-day humans can be understood in terms of this fundamental and growing mismatch. It is an insight that we ignore at our peril.
We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty and old age. Bringing together the latest scientific research in evolutionary biology, development, medicine, anthropology and ecology, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, both leading medical scientists, argue that many of our problems as modern-day humans can be understood in terms of this fundamental and growing mismatch. It is an insight that we ignore at our peril.
Peter Gluckman is University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Paediatrics and Perinatal Biology, and Director of the Liggins Institute for Medical Research and the National Center for Growth and Development, at the University of Auckland. Mark Hanson directs the Centre for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease at the University of Southampton, and is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Honorary professor at the University of Auckland.
MATCH ; 1. Our comfort zone ; 2. Where have we come from? ; 3. When we were very young ; 4. Things ain't what they used to be ; 5. Constrained by our pasts ; MISMATCH ; 6. Coming of age ; 7. A life of luxury ; 8. Our extended life ; 9. Match and Mismatch
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.9.2006 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | B&W halftones and line drawings |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 243 mm |
| Gewicht | 612 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Allgemeinmedizin |
| Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-280683-1 / 0192806831 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-280683-3 / 9780192806833 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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