The paper George Williams published in 1957 about senescence has inspired much of the field of evolutionary medicine. I never heard about it in medical school, but the evolutionary biologists I was talking with at the University of Michigan in the 1980’s said I...
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.,...
