Evolutionary Genetics for Mental Disorders

Evolutionary Genetics for Mental Disorders

A new article provides a comprehensive review of this important area where an evolutionary perspective offers great promise: Keller, M. C. (2018). Evolutionary Perspectives on Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Psychiatric Disorders. Annual Review of Clinical...
Application open for Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute

Application open for Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute

TriCEM is now accepting applications for the Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute (EMSI), to be held at Duke from June 3-9, 2018. The application can be found here, and is due by March 1, 2018. The workshop will introduce core evolutionary perspectives to a...

Prenatal stress has big effects

Berghänel, A., Heistermann, M., Schülke, O., & Ostner, J. (2017). Prenatal stress accelerates offspring growth to compensate for reduced maternal investment across mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(50), E10658–E10666....

Socioeconomic Disparities in Behavior and Health

Commentary by Robert Perlman on a BBS article by Pepper and Nettle Socioeconomic disparities in health are persistent, complex, and seemingly intractable problems. Disparities in access to health care play a role but can’t be a major cause of health disparities, since...