Survival of the Sickest
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All Themes Evolution and Illness Interspecies Connectivity and Adaptation Environment, Ancestry, and Race Genetic Expression, Acquired Traits, and Mutation Interdisciplinary Science and Research
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All Characters Sharon Moalem Aran Gordon Charles Darwin Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Alister Hardy Elaine Morgan David Barker Barbara McClintock Paul Ewald
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All Terms Anemia Epigenetics Favism Folic acid Free radicals Hayflick limit Hemochromatosis Transposons (“jumping genes”) Macrophage Malaria Methylation Retrovirus Phytoestrogens Weissman barrier Younger Dryas
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Survival of the Sickest

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Sharon Moalem
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