Evolutionary Medicine Book 1

Medicina Evolucionista: Aportaciones pluridisciplinares. Volumen 1

(Evolutionary medicine: pluri-disciplinary contributions)

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Index

Authors and Editorial Commitee

Foreword

Pre-darwinian thinking in history

José-Luis Gómez Pérez

Evolution of the genus Homo

Labib Drak

About infections in palaeopathology

José-Luis Gómez Pérez

Introduction to evolutionary aspects of diet: Its relationship with human evolution

Isabel Ojeda

Celiac disease, HLA and evolution

Juan-Ignacio Serrano Vela

Obesity: a secular, genetic and population perspective

Marisa González-Montero de Espinosa, María-Dolores Marrodán Serrano, María-Soledad Mesa Santurino

An evolutionary view of the hygiene hypothesis in allergy and chronic inflammatory disease

Alvaro Daschner

Sexual dimorphism in immunology: relevance to autoimmune disease

Sivia Sánchez-Ramón, Marta Tejera-Alhambra

Sexual dimorphism in pain perception

Eduardo Sánchez Pérez & Guillermo Rodríguez Bernal

Co-evolution between parasite and host

Carmen Cuéllar

Vector-agent co-adaptation in arthropod transmitted disease

A. Sonia Olmeda, José-Luis Pérez, Félix Valcárcel

Malaria as a possible motor of evolution?

Consuelo Giménez Pardo

Evolutionary aspects of allergic disease

Alvaro Daschner

Suicide and evolution: More than a simple paradox?

Hilario Blasco Fontecilla

Meetings and Seminars in Evolutionary Medicine

Glossary

Analytical index