Evolution Medicine and Public Health will publish a special issue on Paleopathology in 2021. Submissions are invited. See below and this link for details
Bioarchaeology and its sub-discipline palaeopathology provide direct insight into the appearance, prevalence, manifestations, and impact of particular health problems through thousands of years of human history and prehistory. As such, these disciplines help to explain how and why certain diseases have emerged and evolved in humans. Additionally, the information gained from these archaeological contexts has the potential to identify possible aetiological factors that can be difficult to see in smaller, more locally confined clinical studies.
Currently, palaeopathology is under-represented in evolutionary medicine. With this in mind, we are launching a Virtual Issue of Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (EMPH) that will address questions in evolutionary medicine from the unique perspective of paleopathological research.
For this Virtual Issue, we welcome and encourage the submission of data-driven research papers from scholars who use bioarchaeology and evolutionary theory to answer questions about medical issues affecting humans. If you or your lab are conducting such research, please consider submitting a paper to EMPH for consideration.
Paper submissions will be accepted for consideration for this virutal issue from now until the target date of August 31, 2021.
Please contact the organizers for more information: Kimberly Plomp at [email protected], Gillian Bentley at [email protected], or Frank Rühli at [email protected].
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