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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

Is our tendency to "fix" our bodies with medicine keeping them from working exactly as they're supposed to? Two pioneers of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness is part and parcel of the evolutionary system and as such, may be helping us to evolve towards better adaptation to our environment..

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Authors: Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams

Publisher: Vintage

Date: Jan. 30, 1996

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