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...
Ottino-Loffler, B., Scott, J. G., & Strogatz, S. H. (2017). Evolutionary dynamics of incubation periods. ELife, 6. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30212 (open access) Abstract:The incubation period for typhoid, polio, measles, leukemia and many other diseases...
Male homosexuality has been a long-standing mystery from an evolutionary perspective, one that has spurred many hypotheses. Ray Blanchard and colleagues have extensively documented previously that the likelihood of homosexuality increases with a man’s...
In a dramatic demonstration of the power of evolutionary thinking for cancer research, adaptive therapy has been shown to be substantially superior to regular treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. Only 1 of 11 patients in the adaptive therapy cohort showed...
