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A interesting book about how evolutionary thought can help medicine. It is mostly used as a perspective through which to make sense of medical diagnosis and abnormalities. Here under also talking about mental illness. The most salient points though are in communication to patients as most modern medical diagnosis is given without a central perspective more like a hodgepodge of ideas with no guiding idea. This is where evolution would be able to come in without to much trouble. That it is not given by use of antibiotics now is somewhat suspect since why should the patient be certain to kill all bacteria if you don`t need to stop resistance. The main problem with the book is how speculative it is and how hard it would be to get a lot of the ideas into modern medicine while the authors are a bit to optimistic. Still a interesting read if you want to know about possible changes to the medical complex