The World Health Summit in Berlin in October has the subtitle: The Evolution of Medicine. This is somewhat different from evolution and medicine, however there will be good representation from evolutionary medicine researchers at the meeting, which is planned to be a...
In a new PLoS Biology article, Read, Lynch and Thomas combine two facts and evolutionary thinking to propose a creative and surprising solution to insecticide resistance and malaria transmission. The facts are: 1. Mosquitoes develop resistance to new...
The University of Michigan School of Public Health is offering a one-week, one credit course from July 27-31 on Evolutionary Epidemiology (EPID 788) taught by Betsy Foxman and Randolph Nesse. For details and an application, click above. For the course description,...
This week’s Science has an extensive review of the National Academy Sackler Colloquium on Evolution in Health and Medicine. Elizabeth Pennisi packs many examples into just a few paragraphs and gives a vivid sense for the excitement of the meeting and its...
The National Academy of Sciences webpage has just posted an interview with Peter Ellison about the recent Sackler Symposium Evolution in Health and Medicine. Audio recordings of all the talks with slides will be available on the web after a few weeks; in the...
