Survival of the Sickest : A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease. Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince (Hardcover)

from SqueakyChu

This turned out to be an utterly fascinating book! I had been thinking, from its title, that the book would be about disease. It is, however, about something else entirely - how evolution and our genetic make-up are closely intertwined. Based on the modern research (Okay, I'll admit I haven't rea...

from parvita

Awesome book. Educational, interesting and have a lot of information in it.

from atiara

Easy reading, somewhat repetitive. As someone in a health professional school I was familiar with much of the ideas in the book and predicted the hypotheses I was not familiar with, but this is still an interesting book worth reading, especially as an introduction to current ideas on how our gene...

from atiara

Easy reading, somewhat repetitive. As someone in a health professional school I was familiar with much of the ideas in the book and predicted the hypotheses I was not familiar with, but this is still an interesting book worth reading, especially as an introduction to current ideas on how our gene...

from Niecierpek

The book examines why people with deadly hereditary diseases haven't gotten eliminated by evolution. Moalem starts with a condition his grandfather suffered from: hemochromatosis, which is a hereditary disease that disrupts the way the body metabolizes iron and accumulates too much of it leading ...