The Fetal Matrix : Evolution, Development and Disease

di Gluckman - Hanson • 2004 • dettagli prodotto

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New discoveries suggest that the most important interactions in determining our fate occur before birth. They are an evolutionary echo of mechanisms which allowed our ancestors to survive as hunter-gatherers but which are now linked to the many emerging diseases of affluence. This is a ground-breaking and fascinating account.Table of Contents 1. Shaping our destiny: genes, environment and their interactions2. Mother and fetus3. Fetal choices4. Predictive adaptive responses and human diseases5. Obesity, diabetes and other diseases6. The biology of predictive adaptive responses7. Predictive adaptive responses - critical processes in evolution8. Evolutionary echoes and the human camel9. Improving human health10. Fetal futures