The Boeing 737 Max and Evolutionary Medicine
The recent Boeing 737 Max crashes provide a tragic illustration of how the core principle of evolutionary medicine can be useful for understanding failures of machines as well as bodies. On October 29, 2019 Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes...
Evolutionary Psychiatry Conference Oct 22-27
ETHOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH October 22-27, 2019Erice, Sicily, ITALY This will be an important meeting for all interested in evolutionary psychiatry. The setting, in an old monastery on a mountaintop in Sicily, is stunning. It is open to...
EMPH gets Impact Factor of 4.4
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health has just received its first Impact Factor--4.4. This places the journal 10/50 in category of Evolutionary Biology and 23/185 in category of Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. The official journal of the...
The State of Undergrad EvMed Education
Grunspan, D. Z., Moeller, K. T., Nesse, R. M., & Brownell, S. E. (2019). The state of evolutionary medicine in undergraduate education. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2019(1), 82–92. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoz012 Abstract Background and objectives...
Cooperation and Conflict in Human Pregnancy
A new short review by David Haig will be of interest to all who study human reproduction and pregnancy. Haig, D. (2019). Cooperation and conflict in human pregnancy. Current Biology, 29(11), R455–R458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.040 Abstract: For many...
Can the Pregnancy Compensation Hyp. Explain Why Women Get More Autoimmune Disorders?
Natri, H., Garcia, A. R., Buetow, K. H., Trumble, B. C., & Wilson, M. A. (2019). The Pregnancy Pickle: Evolved Immune Compensation Due to Pregnancy Underlies Sex Differences in Human Diseases. Trends in Genetics, 35(7), 478–488....
Why Cancer Rates Increase with Age
A new article by Rozhok and DeGregori uses an evolutionary lens to propose a more sophisticated analysis of why cancer becomes more common with age, and the role of tissue ecology. Rozhok, A., & DeGregori, J. (2019). A generalized theory of age-dependent...