Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health journal launched

The first issue of Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health has been published.   The journal is edited by Stephen Stearns and published by the Oxford University Press.    The Table of Contents is below.  All articles are Open Access. Editorial  by Stephen C. Stearns...

Marlene Zuk on Paleofantasies

Her article is in the current issue of The Chronicle Review. Article begins: The first thing you have to do to study 4,000-year-old DNA is take off your clothes.  I am standing with Oddný Ósk Sverrisdóttir in the airlock room next to the ancient-DNA laboratory at...

Multiple origins of the appendix

Smith, H. F., Parker, W., Kotzé, S. H., & Laurin, M. Multiple independent appearances of the cecal appendix in mammalian evolution and an investigation of related ecological and anatomical factors. Comptes Rendus Palevol(0). doi:...

Corbett and Morin-Papunen on the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

The Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and recent human evolution By Corbett S, Morin-Papunen L. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2013 Jan 23. pii: S0303-7207(13)00004-X. doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2013.01.001. (not open access) Abstract: The Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex...

Ewald and Ewald on oncogenesis

Toward a general evolutionary theory of oncogenesis (pages 70–81) By Paul W. Ewald and Holly A. Swain Ewald Evolutionary Applications   Special Issue: Cancer    Volume 6, Issue 1, pages 70–81, January 2013 Abstract: We propose an evolutionary framework, the barrier...