Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes : A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.