Body by Darwin [electronic resource] : how evolution shapes our health and transforms medicine / Jeremy Taylor.

Introduction
Absent friends
How the hygiene hypothesis explains allergies and autoimmune diseases
A fine romance
How evolutionary theory explains infertility and diseases of pregnancy
The downside of upright
The relationship between bipedalism and orthopedic illnesses
DIY eye
How developmental biology cures blindness and rebuts creationism
Hopeful monsters
Why cancer is almost impossible to cure
A problem with the plumbing
Why the evolution of coronary arteries makes us prone to heart attacks
Score years-and then?
How evolution is breathing new life into Moribund Dementia Research.