Human Evolution and Osteoporosis-Related Spinal Fracture

By Cotter MM, Loomis DA, Simpson SW, Latimer B, Hernandez CJ, PLoS ONE 6(10): e26658. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026658 Abstract The field of evolutionary medicine examines the possibility that some diseases are the result of trade-offs made in human evolution. Spinal...

Evolution course for medical students at the Universidad de Chile

A brief overview of the development of an Evolution course for medical students at the Universidad de Chile By Angel E. Spotorno O., PhD Programa de Genética Humana, ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE In the last nine years, about 200 premedical students...

The Evolution of Infectious Agents in Relation to Sex

A Symposium, Nobel Meets Darwin at Alfred Nobel’s home in Sweden was organized and chaired by two leading researchers on sexually transmitted diseases, Dan Danielsson MD, PhD, from Emory University, and   André J Nahmias, MD, MA, MPH, from Örebro University in...