Mismatch Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies

Name: Mismatch Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies
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ISBN: 9780199228386

ISBN-10: 0199228388

ISBN-13: 9780199228386

Edition: 2008

Authors: Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson

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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…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English



Match



Our comfort zone



Where have we come from?



When we were very young



Things ain't what they used to be



Constrained by our pastsMismatch



Coming of age



A life of luxury



Four score years and ten



Match and Mismatch


Epilogue