Mites, Ticks and Evolution: Conference in Turkey in September
The XV International Congress of Acarology (XV ICA) is being staged at the WOW Topkapı Palace Hotel in Antalya, Turkey from 2 to 8 September, 2018. That means we are less than 11 months from the biggest event on the calendar for international acarology. The host city,...
Special Lancet series about Evolution and Public Health
This week's issue of The Lancet has three articles in a landmark series about evolution and public health: an overview, an article about human microbe interactions, and the third about reproductive health. All are behind a paywall, but the accompanying editorial is...
In Memory of Jeremy Taylor, Associate Editor
Jerry Taylor passed away July 17, 2017, at age 70 from pancreatic cancer. He was an enormous force for good in the field of evolutionary medicine, and a wonderfully creative, critical, and energetic Associate Editor for the Evolution & Medicine Review. He is...
NYTimes feature on Trumble’s paper on ApoE4 and Alzheimer’s disease
"An Ancient Cure for Alzheimer’s?" is the title of Pagan Kennedy's article in this week's New York Times Sunday Review about the paper by Ben Trumble, et al., showing that the allele that increases risk of Alzheimer's disease in most people causes decreased risk in...
Evolution and Medicine positions available in Anthropology and Biology at Penn State
Assistant or Associate Professor in the Evolutionary Anthropology of Human Health and positions to study resistance evolution (see below) The Department of Anthropology (http://anth.la.psu.edu) and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (www.huck.psu.edu) at The...
ISEMPH Election Results
The results are in for the election of new Officers and Council Members for the International Society for Evolution and Public Health. Stephen Stearns was elected President for a two year term starting at the end of this year's meeting Grazyna Jasienska was elected...
Ecology and Evolution of Cancer: New book from Academic Press
Ecology and Evolution of Cancer 1st Edition Editors: Beata Ujvari, Benjamin Roche, and Frederic Thomas. Academic Press 2017 eBook ISBN: 9780128043806 Paperback ISBN: 9780128043103 Book Commentary by Leonard Nunney, UC Riverside, Department of Biology Cancer...