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Author: Stephen C. Stearns (Yale University) ,
Jacob C. Koella (Imperial College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 18.80cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.883kg
ISBN: 9780199207466
ISBN 10: 0199207461
Pages: 398
Publication Date: 22 November 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book is a veritable treasure trove...The book is written in an extremely clear, mostly nontechnical style. Lab Times The book should be a welcome addition to the shelves of academics and students in the biological sciences, as well as medical practitioners for whom it was primarily intended. Jerzy M. Behnke Parasites & Vectors ...this book will stimulate fresh thinking and new approaches to traditional medical problems The New England Journal of Medicine The chapters are well-organized and refreshingly free of jargon, with good flow across the diverse range of topics. American Journal of Human Biology This splendid book, will not only delight biologists (both established and apprentice) but also help medical students to appreciate biological issues underlying their future craft. Biologist magazine This second edition is a welcome addition to the growing integration of the biomedical sciences. As an evolutionary biologist, I found myself grateful more than once that these well organized summary articles on so many disciplines connected to evolutionary biology and geomics could be found between only two covers! Lee F Greer, Doody's Notes The second edition of Evolution in Health and Disease (S.C. Stearns and J.C. Koella, editors) Provides a timely update that should help to further energize this interdisciplinary paradigm...[...] The coverage in Evolution in health and disease is broad, ranging from infectious to chronic disease and microbial genomics to life-history theory. EVolution in health and disease provides compelling evidence that and evolutionary perspective can lead to important and novel insights into issues relevant to human health. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
This book is a veritable treasure trove...The book is written in an extremely clear, mostly nontechnical style. Lab Times The book should be a welcome addition to the shelves of academics and students in the biological sciences, as well as medical practitioners for whom it was primarily intended. Jerzy M. Behnke Parasites & Vectors ...this book will stimulate fresh thinking and new approaches to traditional medical problems The New England Journal of Medicine The chapters are well-organized and refreshingly free of jargon, with good flow across the diverse range of topics. American Journal of Human Biology This splendid book, will not only delight biologists (both established and apprentice) but also help medical students to appreciate biological issues underlying their future craft. Biologist magazine This second edition is a welcome addition to the growing integration of the biomedical sciences. As an evolutionary biologist, I found myself grateful more than once that these well organized summary articles on so many disciplines connected to evolutionary biology and geomics could be found between only two covers! Lee F Greer, Doody's Notes The second edition of Evolution in Health and Disease (S.C. Stearns and J.C. Koella, editors) Provides a timely update that should help to further energize this interdisciplinary paradigm...[...] The coverage in Evolution in health and disease is broad, ranging from infectious to chronic disease and microbial genomics to life-history theory. EVolution in health and disease provides compelling evidence that and evolutionary perspective can lead to important and novel insights into issues relevant to human health. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
`The chapters are well-organized and refreshingly free of jargon, with good flow across the diverse range of topics.' Thomas W. McDade, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois `Review from previous edition 'Provides intriguing reading.'' J.C. von Vaupel Klein, Koninklijke Brill NV, 1999 `'Evolution in Health and Disease is likely to set a benchmark for the many contributions that will certainly follow.'' Mark Pagel, Science `'...This is a fascinating book, with contributions from many leading researchers, which should interest biologists, medics and veterinarians alike. It is the state-of-the-art text for evolutionary medicine and provides an excellent platform for the development of this important subject.'' Mark E.J. Woolhouse, Trends in Microbiology `'...This book and others like it should help evolutionary thinking permeate medicine more rapidly'' Parasitology Today
Author Information
Professor Stearns specializes in life history evolution, which links the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, in evolutionary medicine, and in evolutionary functional genomics. He came to Yale in 2000 from the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he had been professor of zoology since 1983 and held several administrative posts. Prior to moving to Basel he was an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Reed College in Oregon. Born in Hawaii and a 1967 graduate of Yale College, Stearns earned a M.S. from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Professor Koella's interests lie in the coevolution of parasites and hosts. He specializes in the evolutionary epidemiology of malaria and in the application of evolutionary ideas to the control of malaria. After obtaining a Masters' in mechanical engineering at the ETH Zurich and a PhD in evolutionary biology at the University of Basel he worked for several years at the Swiss Tropical Institute Basel as a malaria epidemiologist before moving on to positions in Switzerland, Denmark and France. He arrived at Imperial College in 2005 as a Chair in Epidemiology.
