The NY Times has an accessible summary of the Crespi/Badcock theory that schizophrenia and autism are opposite poles of the competition between maternal and paternal genomes, based on work by Trivers and Haig. In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents’ Genes Are...
Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Workshop Imperial College London 14th and 15th of January 2009 The aim of the workshop is to bring together the following three groups of scientists: experts in genotyping, experimental evolution and mathematical modeling. buy alesse...
The aim of this new Interest Group is to gather a network of SGIM members who share fascination with the view of health and illness through an evolutionary lens. Through this lens, the very nature of questions one can ask shifts from proximate “what”...
A recent article by Hood and Jenkins provides an overview of a May 2007 Meeting on Evolutionary Medicine organized by Diddahally Govindaraju, Peter Byers and Stephen Stearns and hosted by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. Abstract Modern...
One July 1, 1858, a pair of papers presented to the Linnean Society in London announced the discovery of natural selection to the scientific world. One was by Charles Darwin, the other by Alfred Wallace. Neither man was present at the meeting, which...
