Resistance, to antibiotics and insecticides, is one of the world's biggest medical and public health problems. In a new open access article in Evolutionary Applications, Silvie Huijben and Krijn Paaaijams argue that it is time to put sophisticated evolutionary...
Evolutionary Applications has a lovely series of articles on Evolutionary Toxicology, now available open access. Highly recommended! Evolutionary toxicology: Toward a unified understanding of life's response to toxic chemicals (pages 745–751)Steven P....
This study of students in a course on evolutionary medicine taught on two separate occasions, found that acceptance is not the problem; human cognitive tendencies interfere more with deep understanding of how natural selection works. Barnes, M. E., Evans, E. M.,...
It has long been recognized (at least in evolutionarily informed circles) that the immune system faces a dire tradeoff: too little or too specific a immune response and pathogens triumph, too much or too nonspecific and the system attacks host tissues. A new...
