Below are new open access articles just published in Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health
- Karen Rosenberg and
- Wenda Trevathan
Evolutionary obstetrics.
- C. Athena Aktipis,
- Bruce J. Ellis,
- Katherine K. Nishimura,
- and Robert A. Hiatt
Modern reproductive patterns associated with estrogen receptor positive but not negative breast cancer susceptibility
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It has long been accepted that modern reproductive patterns are likely contributors to breast cancer susceptibility because of their influence on hormones such as estrogen and the importance of these hormones in breast cancer. We found that modern reproductive patterns of later age of first birth and lower parity were associated with ER-positive but not ER-negative breast cancer. Thus, the evolutionary mismatch hypothesis for breast cancer can account for ER-positive breast cancer susceptibility but not ER-negative breast cancer.
- Mark M. Tanaka,
- Benjamin M. Althouse,
- and Carl T. Bergstrom
Timing of antimicrobial use influences the evolution of antimicrobial resistance during disease epidemics
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How can antimicrobial drugs be deployed optimally during infectious disease epidemics? Our mathematical models show it is optimal to delay treatment to maximize successful treatments. In formulating policy, however, this must be balanced against the risk of incorrectly predicting the peak of an epidemic.
- Joe Alcock and
- Edmund K. LeGrand
Anorexia
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