What is health? : allostasis and the evolution of human design / by Peter, Sterling. -- Cambridge : The MIT Press, c2020. – (59.518/S838)

Contents

Preface  ix

Acknowledgments  xv

Introduction: The Lost Mariner  xix

1  Fundamentals of Efficient Design: The First Three Billion Years

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