Evmed correspondent Andrew Read has this interesting, counter-intuitive, piece about malaria resistance, written with colleague Mark Thomas. It is a commentary on a recent paper in PNAS by Viana, Hughes, Matthiopoulos, Ranson and Ferguson. “Delayed mortality...
The prodigious Emerald Snow has just sent in this commentary on the life history session. Thanks, Emerald! Caleb Finch opened this session by showing us an interesting case of antagonistic pleiotropy: the ApoE4 allele in humans. ApoE4 causes inflammation, brain aging,...
Thanks to Nicole Bender for this commentary on the metabolism and mismatch session – 21b. The session on metabolism and mismatch discussed examples of animal or cell models for human metabolic diseases. Nicolas Rohner described a species of cavefish that...
Nikki Burt fires in this commentary on the “Frontiers of Evolutionary Medicine.” See also, Ashley Snyder’s coverage of the same session. Stephen Stearns organized one of the last ISEMPH sessions “Frontiers of Evolution,” and, as you would expect, it...
Thanks again to Cynthia Beall for covering this session for the Evmedreview. The session on behavior and vulnerability to disease covered anxiety, post-partum depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the ‘fourth trimester’ of pregnancy. The...
