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In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on it's head. "It is not," he argues, "that dark country to which we're exiled when we're not 'healthy.' The truth, I intend to show you, is much more interesting and encouraging." His research will reveal that many common diseases are in fact complicated blessings. In considering the question of why diseases exist, Moalem proposes that most common diseases came into existence for very good reasons. Diabetes, hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia all may exist because at some point they helped our ancestors survive some grand challenge to human existence. In turn, he also discovered that genetic and cultural differences have led to each race having different and unique ways of reacting to their environment and subsequently how they become susceptible to certain diseases.
With mesmerizing insight, Moalem demonstrates how diabetes may be a by-product of a mechanism that helped humans survive the Ice Age, why African Americans living in the north might suffer from vitamin D deficiencies, and why Asians can't drink as much alcohol as Europeans. Information in this book is extremely timely, such as Moalem's exploration of the Avian Flu, a disease that threatens to be the world's next great pandemic. Revelatory and written in an utterly engaging fashion, Sharon Moalem's book will change the way we think about our own bodies.
作者简介
沙伦·莫勒姆，博士，获奖科学家、医生，以及《纽约时报》畅销书作者。其研究和作品通过医药学、遗传学、历史和生物学的相互融合，以一种新颖而又引人入胜的方式来解释人类的身体是如何工作的。他还是《纽约时报》畅销书《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之谜》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻译成30余种语言。
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按一般的思维逻辑，我们通常把健康认为是一般状态，而生病就是“不幸的事”。但或许一切的疾病，都可能与整个人类的进化发展史有关。在地球上存在的所有生物——包括人类、动物、植物、微生物，都在相互依存进化着。 或许我们会惊讶于一些遗传病竟和人类祖先为了生存下来有关。...
评分在精彩豆列里看到了这本书，看了推荐理由觉得挺有意思，就抽空看了。的确是科普读物，语言很浅显易懂，也没故弄玄虚，很有趣的一本书。 说说我感兴趣的地方： 1、现在的病在以前就是为了救你的命 本书的主要观点之一就是现代人得的，很多要命的病，在以前是为了救你的命。对于...
评分September 06, 2008 Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connection between Disease and Longevity 这本书的名字只是个噱头，并不是书真正的论点，副标题起得更是不着边。此书其实是本介绍进化生物学理论的科普书。我对此一题目向来就有兴趣，因此读来很有收获。 作...
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First, that life is in a constant state of creation. Evolution isn’t over. Second, that nothing in our world exists in isolation. We—meaning humans and animals and plants and microbes and everything else—are all evolving together. And third, that our relationship with disease is often much more complex than we may have previously realized.
评分大学学了两门进化论，发现还有新东西
评分First, that life is in a constant state of creation. Evolution isn’t over. Second, that nothing in our world exists in isolation. We—meaning humans and animals and plants and microbes and everything else—are all evolving together. And third, that our relationship with disease is often much more complex than we may have previously realized.
评分Life is a miracle. 这本书最大的特点是很会运用analogy，一定程度上照顾到了科普知识还不够多的读者我
评分2020开篇原版书，有趣满分，打开新世界满分，原本计划7天读完，实际9天
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