Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes : A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders - Watve, Milind; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
1. A Darwinian Way of Thinking -- 2. Diabetes in a Textbook -- 3. Diabetes in an Undergraduate Class -- 4. The Rise and Fall of Thrift -- 5. Of Hawks and Doves -- 6. Of Soldiers and Diplomats -- 7. The Physiology of Aggression -- 8. Deploying the Immunological Garrison -- 9. Why Population Density Matters -- 10. Time to Give up Stress -- 11. Fat: Beyond Energy Storage -- 12. Why Blood Sugar Goes up -- 13. Beating Around the 'Wrong' Bush? -- 14. Behavioral Deficiencies and Behavioral Supplementation: -- 15. Where do we Go From Here? -- Appendix I. Genes/molecules that are associated with aggression and also associated with some component of metabolic syndrome -- Appendix II. Network model of type 2 diabetes -- Appendix III. Model for the Effect of population density on aggression -- Appendix IV. Glucose homeostasis model.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Diabetes; Human physiology; Animal physiology; Evolutionary Biology; Diabetes; Human Physiology; Animal Physiology