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1st ed. 2016.

1 online resource (XIV, 382 pages 37 illustrations, 17 illustrations in color.)

Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour

Preface -- Chapter 1: Applying evolutionary thinking in medicine: an introduction -- Chapter 2: "Foetal-maternal conflicts" and adverse outcomes in human pregnancies -- Chapter 3: Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond -- Chapter 4: Bottle feeding: the impact on postpartum depression, birth spacing and autism -- Chapter 5: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome -- Chapter 6: The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: adaptation reconsidered -- Chapter 7: Is calculus relevant to survival? Managing the evolutionary novelty of modern education -- Chapter 8: Binge eating, Disinhibition and obesity -- Chapter 9: Evolutionary aspects of the dietary omega-6/omega-3 fatty acid ratio: medical implications -- Chapter 10: Evolutionary paradigms in cardiology: the case of chronic heart failure -- Chapter 11: Evolutionary imprints on cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology -- Chapter 12: Darwinian Strategies to Avoid the Evolution of Drug Resistance During Cancer Treatment -- Chapter 13: Why chemotherapy does not work: cancer genome evolution and the illusion of oncogene addiction -- Chapter 14: Evolution, Infection, and Cancer -- Chapter 15: Microbes, Parasites and Immune diseases -- Chapter 16: Evolutionary principles and Host Defense -- Chapter 17: Helminth immunoregulation and Multiple Sclerosis treatment -- Chapter 18: Inflammaging and its role in ageing and age-related diseases -- Chapter 19: Dementias of the Alzheimer type: views through the lens of evolutionary biology suggest amyloid-driven brain aging is balanced against host defence -- Chapter 20: The Evolutionary Etiologies of Autism Spectrum and Psychotic-Affective Spectrum Disorders -- Chapter 21: Why are humans vulnerable to Alzheimer's Disease? -- Chapter 22: Evolutionary approaches to depression: prospects and limitations -- Chapter 23: The ups and downs of placebos

Alvergne, Alexandra. , Jenkinson, Crispin. , Faurie, Charlotte.