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Survival of the Sickest:
    The Surprising Connections
    Between Disease and Longevity

by Dr. Sharon Moalem
(HarperCollins Publishers, 2007)

ISBN: 978-0-06-088966-1

Find out why deadly diseases are bred into our genetic code - and learn the answers to such provocative questions as:

* Can a person rust to death?

* Can sunglasses cause sunburns?

* Why do we need to pee when we're cold?

* Can the tanning salon lower cholesterol?

* Who gets drunk faster - Europeans or Asians?  And why?

* Why are African-Americans more prone to hypertension?

Survival of the Sickest reveals the answers to these and many other questions as it unravels the amazing connections between evolution, disease, and human health today.
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"... Jared Diamond...explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana.  What emerges is a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe-one whose warning signs surround us today and that we ignore at our peril.  Blending the most recent scientific advances and a vast historical perspective into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future."   cover

ISBN 0-14-303655-6
 

"Remarkable for its ambitious sweep and interpretative panache.  Diamond deftly uses comparative methods and multidisciplinary tools - archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, and botany - to marshal evidence that sustaining societies over time depends primarily on the quality of human interaction with the environment."
- The Christian Science Monitor
 

"Miller is a believer, but he is also certain that we evolved - and this book is about why the two are not mutually exclusive; in fact, the idea of each enriches the other. There is an enormous market out there for whom this issue is of real interest and import. Much of contemporary thought on evolution has centered on the mistaken assumption that evolution requires a strictly materialist view of the origins of all organisms - including human beings. This book will debunk that myth, arguing that the real world is less certain and far more interesting than either the scientific mainstream or creationists assume. Properly understood, evolution adds depth and meaning not only to a strictly scientific view of the world, but to a spiritual one, as well. Readers will find this fascinating, very clear, incisive, exciting, and thoughtful." source

ISBN 13: 9780061233500
ISBN 10: 0061233501