Overview

Overview
In this book, Dr. Sharon Moalem approaches the topic of health and disease from a completely novel lens that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about what it means to be healthy. Instead of seeking to simply understand what causes different heritable disorders, Survival of the Sickest explores why these diseases are still so prevalent in populations today, when you would think that natural selection should be working to eradicate them completely. Throughout the chapters, Dr. Sharon Moalem takes you on a journey through the evolution of disease in the human species and makes a strong argument as to how many of the conditions we consider to be diseases today, in the past have been considered advantageous to survival. Even if science and medicine are not really your thing (I’m looking at you business majors!) I still think you should give this book a shot. The way in which Dr. Sharon Moalem approaches the problem and his unique thought processes could have a variety of different applications.