Mismatch

Mismatch
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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9780199228386
ISBN-13 : 0199228388
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mismatch by : Peter Gluckman

Download or read book Mismatch written by Peter Gluckman and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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