Evolutionary Psychiatry: Two upcoming events

Evolutionary approaches to understanding mental disorders are growing fast. Here are two opportunities to learn more. On August 5-6 in Durham, UK, the Evolutionary Psychiatry ISEMPH Pre-meeting will bring many leaders in the field together for two days of...

George C Williams Award for 2024

The award for the best articles published in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health in 2023 goes equally to two articles. Biomarkers or biotargets? Using competition to lure cancer cells into evolutionary traps, by Anuraag Bukkuri, Frederick R Adler (equal...

Writing-up fellowships in Evolutionary Medicine

Call for Writing-Up Fellows in Evolutionary Medicine The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Klosterneuburg, Austria, is an international center for advanced studies in the life sciences, with a focus on conceptual, philosophical,...

ISEMPH 2024 Abstracts Due March 1st

ISEMPH 2024 welcomes your abstract for presenting a talk, poster or symposium at the August 6-9 meeting in Durham. Abstract submission is easy and all registration fees are refundable until two weeks before the event. What would you like to share this year? Full...
Schizophrenia: Recent selection for protective alleles

Schizophrenia: Recent selection for protective alleles

New data and analyses suggests new explanations for the persistence of alleles that increase the risk of schizophrenia. A 2019 article by Liu, et al. suggested that rapid selection for cognitive and emotional traits during human evolution may have increased the risk...