Body by darwin attempts to trace the evolutionary history of many common medical issues including heart disease miscarriage dementia cancer and back pain with an eye toward what evolution can tell people about the possible origins of these problems and ultimately strategies for treatment taylor succeeds in drawing provocative connections between health and evolution that add an important perspective to how people should think about the theory and practice of modern medicine . Body by darwin attempts to trace the evolutionary history of many common medical issues including heart disease miscarriage dementia cancer and back pain with an eye toward what evolution can tell people about the possible origins of these problems and ultimately strategies for treatment taylor succeeds in drawing provocative connections between health and evolution that add an important perspective to how people should think about the theory and practice of modern medicine . Body by darwin how evolution shapes our health and transforms medicine by taylor jeremy 304 pp chicago university of chicago press 2015 3000 cloth 1800 e book tyler m barrett department of anthropology northwestern university evanston illinois search for more papers by this author tyler m barrett department of anthropology northwestern university evanston . In body by darwin taylor examines the evolutionary origins of some of our most common and serious health issues to begin he looks at the hygiene hypothesis which argues that our obsession with anti bacterial cleanliness particularly at a young age may be making us more vulnerable to autoimmune and allergic diseases he also discusses diseases of the eye the medical consequences of bipedalism as they relate to all those aches and pains in our backs and knees the rise of alzheimers . Body by darwin how evolution shapes our health and transforms medicine by jeremy taylor 2015 10 22 jeremy taylor isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon