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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。...
评分这本书很有趣。如果本人具备一定的生物学、医学基础，我可能更加明白个中妙处。 书里告诉我们：现在我们遇到的很多疾病（血色病、糖尿病、蚕豆病、皮肤癌，只记得这几个）都在漫长的进化进程中曾经帮助过我们，使我们免于灭亡。举个例子：糖尿病“是一组由于胰岛素分泌缺陷和/...
评分糖尿病很多情况是一种遗传病，为什么在进化的道路上，自然选择没有剔除掉它呢？很大原因是因为，糖尿病帮助我们度过了过去的冰河期。 13，000年前的冰河期，气温急剧下降。而体内糖份多的人，可以有效使血液抗冻不结冰。 拥有高浓度糖份的遗传习性的人，最可能度过冰河期生...
评分 评分怀孕的头几天至关重要，在这段时间内，胎儿会有很多重要的基因给打开或者关闭。假如一位刚怀孕的母亲，在开始的几个星期只吃典型的垃圾食品，胎儿接受到的信息是: 出生后的环境将是艰难的，那将导致各种基因被开启与关闭，来适应出生后的艰难环境。导致婴儿出生时体积较小，所...
用户评价
从一个理科生的角度这书是在罗列数据 事例关联性不够强 解释得比较琐碎
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.
评分作为科普读物，内容很深入。作者总能衍生到很远的地方再拐回来，这个写作手法很新鲜。但我可能不会推荐周围的朋友，“转座子”、“表观遗传学”、“细胞程序性凋亡”这些概念的出现，已经让这本书进入半专业水平，略难。
评分严重好于预期。有趣而震撼。十分值得重读。笔记： DNA is not destiny. DNA is history.
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