Body by Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine

This exploration of cutting-edge evolutionary medicine and how our body's performance is shaped by its past "covers fascinating territory" (Publishers Weekly).

We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions—whether it's a cough or an aching back. But the sicknesses and complaints that cause us to seek medical attention actually have deeper origins than the superficial germs and behaviors we regularly fault. In fact, as Jeremy Taylor shows in Body by Darwin, we can...