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Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age?Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe?
Why are some people immune to HIV?
Can your genes be turned on โ or off?
Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies and our health. By re- examining evolutionary history, Dr Moalem reveals how many of the conditions that are diseases today actually gave our ancestors a leg up in the survival sweepstakes. But Survival of the Sickest doesn't stop there. It goes on to demonstrate just how little modern medicine really understands about human health, and offers a new way of thinking that can help all of us live longer, healthier lives.
--back cover ISBN:9780007256549
