Publisher's Synopsis
This is the result of a collaboration between a research biologist and a pioneering medical doctor. It defines a set of scientific questions about health, and describes the advances that can be expected from the new evolution-based medicine. The authors suggest that most of what we think of as "illness" is in fact best understood as being side effects of evolutionary progress.;Among the areas covered are cancer, ageing, allergy, pregnancy, mental disorders, as well as a wide range of infectious diseases from notorious lethal epidemics to prosaic everyday complaints such as the common cold.
