Torday, John S.

The evolutionary web of life [electronic resource] / John Torday. - London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2014. - 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (30 min.) : color, sound). - Evolution and medicine : how new applications advance research and practice, 2056-452X . - Henry Stewart talks. Biomedical & life sciences collection. Evolution and medicine. .

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Contents: Rationale for homeostatic change as evolution -- Historic perspective on homeostasis -- Lung surfactant as a molecular fossil -- Evolution (ontogeny + phylogeny + homeostasis) -- Molecular evolutionary fossils -- Homology of skin and lung cell physiology -- Lung-skin-brain homology -- Trojan horse effect and asthma -- Homology of alveolus and glomerulus -- Fluid distension and mechanotransduction -- Evolutionary permutations and combinations -- Aging as the inverse of development -- Foregut plasticity -- Evolutionary biology inconsistencies & paradoxes -- The unicellular bauplan -- Pleiotropy and evolution -- From unicellular to multicellular organisms -- Evolution of whole animal physiology -- Alveolar homeostasis -- Phylogenetic parallelisms.

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3806 Henry Stewart Talks


Molecular evolution.
Molecular genetics.
Pathology, Molecular.
Aging.
Biological Evolution.
Brain--pathology.
Brain--physiology.
Developmental Biology.
Evolution, Molecular.
Homeostasis.
Lung--pathology.
Lung--physiology.
Pathologic Processes.
Phylogeny.
Skin--pathology.
Skin--physiology.
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