by Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince
Survival of the Sickest explores the connections between evolution, disease, and current human health. This book is extremely interesting and engaging, despite the cheesey puns. However, I had hoped for more - more science/medical details, more examples of the evolution-disease-health connections....
It's a light look at a variety of diseases and why it would be that they would continue to survive and perpetuate their genes. In the end it leaves a lot of questions, which is only right. Science often hasn't got a clue and a lot of this book is as much speculation as fact, but it admits this.
This book doesn't really live up to it's promise. It's very interesting, but I felt like the author kept getting sidetracked by other, related, things to the main theme. The audio book was kind of annoying because it had parts with music in it and it really confused me. That's the main reason this b...
This book reminds me very strongly of Freakonomics. I don't know about Dr. Moalem being a "maverick," but he does take the unconventional approach to dealing with common health problems by looking at how our most common and serious ailments (heart disease, obesity, skin cancer and vitamin d deficien...
It's a light look at a variety of diseases and why it would be that they would continue to survive and perpetuate their genes. In the end it leaves a lot of questions, which is only right. Science often hasn't got a clue and a lot of this book is as much speculation as fact, but it admits this.
Ignore the title and the hype about "a medical maverick." In fact, just take the dust jacket off. It was clearly constructed to be provocative, but it's not accurate.Moalem marshals evidence for the positive or effective aspects of diseases that we might other characterize as harmful. He is able to ...
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