1975 First Edition 8vo pp. xx, 8 plates, 180p. Blue paper boards with gilt lettering. Very good in dust jacket.
The sequel book to Harper’s “Evolution and Illness” which applies the modern theory of evolution to a number of aspects of human disease. This book will stimulate the interest of both clinician and biologist to consider more closely the central role of man’s evolution in the pathogenesis of many of his serious and as yet largely unexplained diseases.

The author is a clinician with wide experience of medical practice; it is his thesis that a number of human disorders can be better understood in the light of human evolution, and that in some disorders we are witnessing in altered form processes which were of importance in the normal physiology of man’s mammalian and even reptilian forbears.

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