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Science 22 December 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5807, p. 1879
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136273
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HEALTH, GENES, & ENVIRONMENT:
Prosperous People, Penurious Genes

Steve Jones

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Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies
by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006. 297 pp. $29.95, £16.99. ISBN 0-19-280683-1.
Exploring the interplay between genes and the environment, the author discusses the consequences of human behavior having "outstripped classical Darwinian processes."
The reviewer is at the Galton Laboratory, University College London, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK. E-mail: j.s.jones{at}ucl.ac.uk

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