Evolutionary Medicine Book 1

Medicina Evolucionista: Aportaciones pluridisciplinares. Volumen 1

(Evolutionary medicine: pluri-disciplinary contributions)

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Index   Authors and Editorial Commitee Foreword Pre-darwinian thinking in history José-Luis Gómez Pérez Evolution of the genus Homo Labib Drak About infections in palaeopathology José-Luis Gómez Pérez Introduction to evolutionary aspects of diet: Its relationship with human evolution Isabel Ojeda Celiac disease, HLA and evolution Juan-Ignacio Serrano Vela Obesity: a secular, genetic and population perspective Marisa González-Montero de Espinosa, María-Dolores Marrodán Serrano, María-Soledad Mesa Santurino An evolutionary view of the hygiene hypothesis in allergy and chronic inflammatory disease Alvaro Daschner  Sexual dimorphism in immunology: relevance to autoimmune disease Sivia Sánchez-Ramón, Marta Tejera-Alhambra Sexual dimorphism in pain perception Eduardo Sánchez Pérez & Guillermo Rodríguez Bernal Co-evolution between parasite and host Carmen Cuéllar Vector-agent co-adaptation in arthropod transmitted disease  A. Sonia Olmeda, José-Luis Pérez, Félix Valcárcel Malaria as a possible motor of evolution? Consuelo Giménez Pardo  Evolutionary aspects of allergic disease Alvaro Daschner  Suicide and evolution: More than a simple paradox? Hilario Blasco Fontecilla  Meetings and Seminars in Evolutionary Medicine Glossary Analytical index

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