Evolutionary Medicine: Contributions to the Study of Disease and Immunity 25-26 February 2011 at Florida State University Conference Abstract: Evolutionary medicine is a growing discipline that applies evolutionary reasoning to medical problems including the nature...
The new Oxford Textbook of Medicine is the first to offer a chapter on Evolutionary Biology. The chapter, by Randolph Nesse and Richard Dawkins, is at the very beginning of this 5,518 page book. Nesse RM, Dawkins R. Evolution: Medicine’s most basic science. In:...
Humans lack the enzyme uricase, and the enzyme that allows most other organisms to synthesize vitamin C, so we are vulnerable to gout and scurvy. Why? In this interesting article, dedicated to the memory of James Neel, the authors hypothesize that the mutations...
Evolution and Medicine One-Week Summer Course at Mt Desert Island Biological Laboratories Publication of a recent special issue of PNAS on Evolution in Health and Medicine has led to inquiries from many health professionals about how to learn more. In response, an...
A special session on ‘Darwinian Medicine’ will be presented at the next conference of the European Human Behavior and Evolution Association at Giessen, Germany, March 24th – 26th 2011. Abstract submission is open until December 10th 2010. More...
