Carrera, S. C., Godoy, I., Gault, C. M., Mensing, A., Damm, J., Perry, S. E., & Beehner, J. C. (2025). Stress responsiveness in a wild primate predicts survival across an extreme El Niño drought. Science Advances, 11(4), eadq5020....
ISEMPH 2024 welcomes your abstract for presenting a talk, poster or symposium at the August 6-9 meeting in Durham. Abstract submission is easy and all registration fees are refundable until two weeks before the event. What would you like to share this year? Full...
A news article in this week’s Nature suggests that it is urgent to determine if very LOW polygenic risk scores for some diseases might be associated with disadvantages. The article reports that three companies now offer pre-implantation genetic testing using...
October 12, 2020 Research on aging has been foundational for evolutionary medicine. A recent article by Maklakov & Chapman in Proceedings B “Evolution of aging as a tangle of trade-offs: Energy versus function” reviews history and progress and offers a new idea....
The recent Boeing 737 Max crashes provide a tragic illustration of how the core principle of evolutionary medicine can be useful for understanding failures of machines as well as bodies. On October 29, 2019 Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes...
