Mismatch

Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies

Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson

304 pages, parution le 29/09/2006

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Résumé

We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty and old age.

Bringing together the latest scientific research in evolutionary biology, development, medicine, anthropology and ecology, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, both leading medical scientists, argue that many of our problems as modern-day humans can be understood in terms of this fundamental and growing mismatch. It is an insight that we ignore at our peril.

Readership: General readers interested in evolution, human development, and medicine. Embryologists, evolutionary biologists, clinical scientists and doctors, as well as students in these areas. Ethicists.

L'auteur - Peter Gluckman

Peter Gluckman, Professor of Paediatrics and Perinatal Biology, University of Auckland

L'auteur - Mark Hanson

Mark Hanson, Director of the Centre for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, University of Southampton

Sommaire

Introduction: Our Bodies and our World
Match
- Our Comfort Zone
- Where Have We Come From?
- When We Were Very Young
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be
- Constrained by our Pasts
Mismatch
- Coming of Age
- A Life of Luxury
- Four Score Years and Ten
- Match and Mismatch

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson
Parution	29/09/2006
Nb. de pages	304
Format	16,5 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	600g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780192806833
ISBN13	978-0-19-280683-3