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Evolutionary behavioural genetics and mental disorders

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Why we cook with spices preventative Darwinian medicine /

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The evolutionary ecology of immunity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Why immune defense matters -- Asking for evolutionary reasons and constraints -- Using immune defenses is very costly for the individual -- The nature of the costs -- Differences among the sexes -- Specific defenses and their impact -- What would be the best defense -- Parasites are interfering -- The consequences for medicine.…”
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Evolution of virulence malaria : a case study /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Why are infectious agents virulent? -- Evolutionary and mechanistic explanations -- Natural selection on malaria virulence -- Why are malaria parasites so virulent? …”
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Evolutionary biology of depression

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Depression has a genetic component and can be triggered by stress -- It is a common mental illness -- Why has it not been selected out? -- Sadness is adaptive but depression is probably not -- Depression can be thought of as sadness becoming excessive and malignant.…”
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Evolutionary arms races

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Arms races and evolutionary arms races -- What are they and how are they defined -- Features of arms races -- Who wins?: the Red Queen and the life-dinner principle -- Common arms races in nature -- Predators and prey, sexual selection, parent offspring conflict and host-parasite coevolution -- HIV evolution, parent-infant resemblance in humans and genomic imprinting.…”
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Genetic variation and human disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Proximal vs. ultimate causation -- Causes of death in modern societies -- Quantifying genetic causation -- Relative risks of common diseases -- Fitness -- Why do genetic diseases exist? -- Selection can maintain disease -- Mutation-selection balance -- Evolutionary lag -- Gene flow and genotypeenvironment interactions -- Co-evolutionary arms races -- Why evolution matters.…”
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A Darwinian eye view of cancer

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Mapping motivations evolutionary health promotion /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Most of today's health problems can be prevented by changes in behavior -- How understanding behavior, and behavioral motivation in particular, from an evolutionary perspective can provide new avenues for health promotion -- Example of how an evolutionary insight into the disgust motivation led to an effective handwashing campaign in Ghana.…”
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Ecogenetics evolutionary biology and human disease /

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Diseases of civilization an evolutionary legacy /

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Bacteria and virus evolution a model for the study of natural selection /

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Lung biology and lung disease

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Developmental plasticity, evolution and the origins of disease

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Early nutrition, development and health evolutionary perspectives on the metabolic syndrome /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease -- The thrifty genotype hypothesis -- Metabolic scaling in mammals -- Energy partitioning in humans -- The developmental bottleneck of weaning -- Baby fat as a brain buffer -- How fat and insulin resistance protect the brain -- Why prenatal undernutrition induces the metabolic syndrome -- Implications for adaptation and global disease change.…”
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Evolutionary genetics the detection of natural selection using molecular data /

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Aging and evolutionary medicine

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Race in genetics and medicine

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Evolutionary genetic epidemiology

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Evolutionary Obstetrics

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Human evolutionary history -- Human evolution and childbirth -- Birth in other primates -- How anatomical changes for bipedalism impact birth -- Birth in early human ancestors -- The helpless human newborn -- The evolutionary legacy of birth -- Why women benefit from assistance at birth -- Value of emotional support during labor and delivery.…”
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