Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-401) and index.
Contents
Disease patterns in human biohistory -- Human biology : the Pleistocene inheritance -- Adapting to diversity : climate, food and infection -- Infectious disease : humans and microbes coevolving -- The Third Horseman : food, farming and famines -- The industrial era : the Fifth Horseman? -- Longer lives and lower birth rates -- Modern affluence : lands of milk and honey -- Cities, social environments and synapses -- Global environmental change : overstepping limits -- Health and disease : an ecological perspective -- Footprints to the future : treading less heavily.