Evolutionary biology within medicine: a perspective of growing value By Peter D Gluckman and Carl T Bergstrom BMJ 2011; 343 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d7671 (Published 19 December 2011) In the preface to his 1794 treatise Zoonomia—perhaps the first book in English to present...
Developing a Curriculum for Evolutionary Medicine: Case Studies of Scurvy and Female Reproductive Tract Cancers By Tatjana Buklijas & Felicia M. Low & Alan S. Beedle & Peter D. Gluckman Evo Edu Outreach DOI 10.1007/s12052-011-0374-x Abstract Most early...
Cost of cooperation rules selection for cheats in bacterial metapopulations By Z. DUMAS and R. KÜMMERLI Journal of Evolutionary Biology DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02437.x Bacteria secrete a large variety of beneficial metabolites into the environment, which can be...
Darwinian Medicine’s Drawn-Out Dawn By Elizabeth Pennisi Science 16 December 2011: Vol. 334 no. 6062 pp. 1486-1487 DOI: 10.1126/science.334.6062.1486 Ever since Darwin, physicians have wondered why humans haven’t evolved to be healthier. Blame natural...
Adaptations to Climate-Mediated Selective Pressures in Humans By Hancock AM, Witonsky DB, Alkorta-Aranburu G, Beall CM, Gebremedhin A, Sukernik R, Utermann G, Pritchard JK, Coop G, Di Rienzo A: . PLoS Genet 2011, 7:e1001375 (open access) Abstract Humans inhabit a...
