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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Survival of the Sickest A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease - Audio CD - Unabridged
Author: Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince, Eric Conger (Narrator)
How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help bring down your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on -- or off? — Survival of the Sickest reveals ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780061155765
ISBN-10: 0061155764
Publication Date: 2/1/2007
Edition: Abridged
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Publisher: HarperAudio
Book Type: Audio CD
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Easy-reading genetic explanations of evolution of humans and disese organisms. Explanations of why some inherited affictions provided a method of survival when extremes of environment or plagues cause harsh tests for survival. The survive and reproduce imperative of all organisms may have ignored affictions that were adult onset, i.e. after reproduction. Common sense examples easily understood by the non-scientifically inclined.


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