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...
Ten years ago, most of us paying attention were exhilarated about the prospects for psychiatric genetics. Heritability is high for many disorders-80% of the variation in vulnerability to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia can be attributed to genetic variations. We...
Articles about evolution and medicine are spread so widely over the scientific landscape that no matter how much you read, you know you are missing things. The pleasure on finding them is, however, like finding a diamond in the sand. Such is the case with evolutionary...
I have always found it somewhat confusing that evolutionary principles can be applied to medicine in so many ways. From the start of my work with George Williams, it has seemed clear that our attempts to ask why natural selection left the body vulnerable to so many...
