Hormones and Reality: Epigenetic Regulation of the Endocrine System

The cellular-molecular approach to evolution has led to radical changes in our understanding of biologic principles, including the Cell, Life Cycle, Development, Homeostasis, Senescence/Aging, Heterochrony, Pleiotropy, Phenotype, and the purpose of life itself. Epigenetic inheritance is now recognized as being under the auspices of the endocrine system, which is conventionally thought to regulate physiologic homeostasis. This book presents the cellular-evolutionary perspective towards the relationship of the organism with its surroundings, rendering biology and medicine a continuum instead of fragmented, un-related anecdotes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 153 pages
Publication date: 10 April 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Cellular-molecular approach to evolution has revolutionized our understanding of biological principles, from the Cell to the Life Cycle, Development, Homeostasis, Senescence/Aging, Heterochrony, Pleiotropy, Phenotype, and perhaps the purpose of life itself. This new way of thinking about biology and medicine is largely driven by experimental evidence for epigenetic inheritance. One particular system that is now recognized as being under the auspices of epigenetic inheritance is the endocrine system, which is conventionally thought to regulate physiologic homeostasis. However, because the sex hormones play such a major role in behaviors related to the acquisition of epigenetic data and the processing of such data by the gonads during meiosis, their role in the evolution of the organism becomes tractable. The composite of the activities of the individual over the course of its lifetime can now be understood causally, resulting from the orchestration of its physiology by hormones, prenatally, postnatally, and during the aging process, across the entire life span of the organism. Specific behaviors over the course of the life cycle during childhood, adolescence, puberty, adulthood, and aging can now be understood mechanistically rather than merely as milestones in the various stages of life. With these considerations in mind, this book presents the cellular-evolutionary perspective towards the relationship of the organism with its surroundings, human and non-human alike, rendering biology and medicine a continuum instead of fragmented, unrelated anecdotes.

Weight: 424g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030936907
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022