Survival Of The Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Author: Sharon Moalem
Sharon Moalem proposes that common diseases came into existence for very good reasons – for example, how diabetes may be a by-product of a mechanism that helped humans survive the Ice Age, and why Asians can’t drink as much alcohol as Europeans. She also looks at how the modern world influences disease…..Read More
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