New evidence confirms that telomeres are shaped by the tradeoff between cancer vulnerability and faster aging. DeBoy, E. A., Tassia, M. G., Schratz, K. E., Yan, S. M., Cosner, Z. L., McNally, E. J., Gable, D. L., Xiang, Z., Lombard, D. B., Antonarakis, E. S., Gocke,...
The Times article is behind a paywall, but the EMPH article is freely available: The Maternal Nutritional Buffering Model: an evolutionary framework for pregnancy nutritional intervention Zaneta M Thayer, Julienne Rutherford, Christopher W Kuzawa Evolution,...
The June issue of World Psychiatry has two open-access articles on evolutionary psychiatry. These are among the first overviews on the topic to appear in a major psychiatric journal. Wakefield, J. C. (2023). The promise of evolutionary psychiatry. World Psychiatry,...
An article in this week’s NEJM provides some of the best evidence yet for the role of telomere length in the trade-off between slowing aging and the risk of cancer. DeBoy, E. A., Tassia, M. G., Schratz, K. E., Yan, S. M., Cosner, Z. L., McNally, E. J., Gable, D....