Version 3.2 Biological limits to reduction in rates of coronary heart disease: a punctuated equilibrium approach to immune cognition, chronic inflammation, and pathogenic social hierarchy
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On both empirical and theoretical grounds we find that a particular form of social hierarchy, here characterized as ‘pathogenic’, can, from the earliest phases of life, exert a formal analog to evolutionary selection pressure, literally writing a permanent image of itself ∗Address correspondence to Rodrick Wallace, PISCS Inc., 549 W 123 St., Suite 16F, New York, NY, 10027. Telephone (212) 865-4766, email [email protected].
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تاریخ انتشار 2002