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Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage — which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows:

Level of Evolution / Cause of adaptive failure / resulting disease or problem

Pre-life / Environmental poisons / Certain birth defects

Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like) / Viral infection / Colds/flu/HIV

Morula (sponge-like) / Cellular stress / Cancer

Chordate / Physical stress / Back pain

Fish / Excess dietary salt / Hypertension/heart disease

Amphibian / Tobacco smoke / Lung cancer/emphysema

Lower primate / Excess dietary sugar / Diabetes mellitus

Higher primate / Vitamin C deficiency / Scurvy

Ape / Excess dietary protein / Gout

Homo sapiens / Reduced dietary variety / Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies

Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick

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    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 18/04/2002
    ISBN13: 9780471352617, 978-0471352617
    ISBN10: 0471352616

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , Health & Wellbeing

    Description

    Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage — which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows:

    Level of Evolution / Cause of adaptive failure / resulting disease or problem

    Pre-life / Environmental poisons / Certain birth defects

    Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like) / Viral infection / Colds/flu/HIV

    Morula (sponge-like) / Cellular stress / Cancer

    Chordate / Physical stress / Back pain

    Fish / Excess dietary salt / Hypertension/heart disease

    Amphibian / Tobacco smoke / Lung cancer/emphysema

    Lower primate / Excess dietary sugar / Diabetes mellitus

    Higher primate / Vitamin C deficiency / Scurvy

    Ape / Excess dietary protein / Gout

    Homo sapiens / Reduced dietary variety / Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies

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