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What Is Health? What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design Peter Sterling The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in ITC Stone Serif Std and ITC Stone Sans Std by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Sterling, Peter, 1940- author. Title: What is health? : allostasis and the evolution of human design / Peter Sterling. Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019008899 | ISBN 9780262043304 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Allostasis. | Adaptation (Physiology) | Brain- - Evolution. Classification: LCC QP82.2.A36 S74 2019 | DDC 612/.014- - dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019008899 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To the memory of Joseph Eyer (1944– 2017): friend and navigator. Lost at sea. Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Lost Mariner xix 1 Fundamentals of Efficient Design: The First Three Billion Years 1 2 On the Shoulders of Worms 25 3 Escape from Jurassic Park 47 4 On the Heels of Neanderthal 73 5 What Went Wrong? 107 6 What Is Health? 135 7 Summary and Conclusions 167 Abbreviations 179 Notes 183 Index 217
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