New Lancet article on Microbial Evolutionary Medicine
A new Lancet article provides a very interesting overview of evolutionary approaches to microbial effects on human health, positive as well as negative. It is available free to those who register on The Lancet website. Abstract: Medicine and clinical microbiology have...
New book by Randy Nesse
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry was published on Darwin Day by Dutton (Penguin Random House) Book Website Full Information Advance Praise Reviews TOC Buy on Amazon About the book Slow progress in finding causes and...
Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine just published
Edited by Martin Brüne and Wulf Schiefenhövel TOC here Order here Medicine is grounded in the natural sciences, among which biology stands out with regard to the understanding of human physiology and conditions that cause dysfunction. Ironically though,...
Graduate training in Germany
Education and Research Opportunities in Evolutionary Medicine University of Münster, Germany Master level:Evolutionary medicine can be studied as part of the 2-year Master of Science (MSc) study programmes ‘Biosciences’, ‘Biotechnology’ and ‘Biomedicine’, all within...
The Obesity-Inflammation Connection Explained
West-Eberhard, M. J. (2018). Nutrition, the visceral immune system, and the evolutionary origins of pathogenic obesity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201809046. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809046116 The long-awaited article on the evolution of...
EMPH has Oomph: Impact Factor Approved
Approval of an impact factor has just been announced for Evolution Medicine and Public Heath, the Open Access journal published by the Oxford University Press for the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. This is a major accomplishment for...
Mismatch Talks at Michigan
The University of Michigan Evolution and Human Adaptation Program has a fine series of talks coming up. Thursdays 1:30-3:00 in East Hall on the Ann Arbor campus. See this link for details. Feb 14th Beverly Strassman (Michigan)Feb 21st Marco Del Giudice (New...