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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introducing evolutionary thinking for medicine | |
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| The history and variation of human genes | |
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| Global spatial patterns of infectious diseases and human evolution | |
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| Medically relevant variation in the human genome | |
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| Health consequences of ecogenetic variation | |
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| Human genetic variation of medical significance | |
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| Natural selection and evolutionary conflicts | |
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| Intimate relations: evolutionary conflicts of pregnancy and childhood | |
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| How hormones mediate tradeoffs in human health and disease | |
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| Functional significance of MHC variation in mate choice, reproductive outcome, and disease risk | |
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| Perspectives on human health and disease from evolutionary and behavioral ecology | |
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| Pathogens: resistance, virulence, variation, and emergence | |
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| The ecology and evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria | |
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| Pathogen evolution in a vaccinated world | |
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| The evolution and expression of virulence | |
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| Evolutionary origins of diversity in human viruses | |
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| The population structure of pathogenic bacteria | |
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| Whole-genome analysis of pathogen evolution | |
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| Emergence of new infectious diseases | |
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| Evolution of parasites | |
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| Noninfectious and degenerative disease | |
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| Evolutionary biology as a foundation for studying aging and aging-related disease | |
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| Evolution, developmental plasticity, and metabolic disease | |
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| Lifestyle, diet, and disease: comparative perspectives on the determinants of chronic health risks | |
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| Cancer: evolutionary origins of vulnerability | |
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| Cancer as a microevolutionary process | |
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| The evolutionary context of human aging and degenerative disease | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |