Farming Human Pathogens: Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process

by Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace, Robert G. Wallace

Book Overview

Farming Human Pathogens: Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process introduces a cutting-edge mathematical formalism based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to describe how punctuated shifts in mesoscale ecosystems can entrain patterns of gene expression and organismal evolution. The authors apply the new formalism toward characterizing a number of infectious diseases that have evolved in response to the world as humans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144192826X
• ISBN13: 9781441928269
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"