I’d just like to draw everyone’s attention to a very nicely written essay on evolution and cancer by Joshua Schiffman, in Mel Greaves’ Darwin Cancer Blog. It is titled “Lessons from cancer risk in animals” and results from collaborative...
Last Friday, the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group held a half-day meeting at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London and heard two talks of interest to anyone in evolutionary medicine. First up was Carmine Pariante, professor of biological...
There is a special issue of Nature Outlook on IBD flagged up today which is Open Access. Several of the articles could be of some interest to evolutionary medics who are interested in the gut microbiota and commensal helminths and their role in modulating the human...
It is now widely understood that cancers evade treatment by evolving drug resistance – in much the same way as microbes acquire resistance to antibiotics. This is why patients can relapse even after courses of modern targeted cancer therapies. Encountering this...
Back in 2014, Joe Alcock, Athena Aktipis and Carlo Maley co-authored a paper in Bioessays, titled “Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms.” In it they argued that gut microbes are...
