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An article in the April, 2009 issue of Evolution, offers provocative support for George Williams’s 1957 prediction that decreased extrinsic mortality rates will select for slower rates of aging. The article compares data from subsistence and European societies...
JAMA published two articles to commemorate Darwin’s 200th birthday. They illustrate the delicate state of medical knowledge about evolutionary biology. The one by Jim Evans offers a succinct and sophisticated overview of what evolution offers to medicine now....
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It is pretty obvious that fever is useful. Work by Kluger and others has shown that increased temperatures decrease mortality during infection. Even for lizards! (When infected they crawl to warmer places.) The mystery has been how fever works. Can higher body...
