Just out from Sinauer, a new version of the classic text Biochemical Adaptation 1st Edition by George N. Somero, Brent L. Lockwood, Lars Tomanek If only medical students could learn their biochemistry from this book! So many wonderful examples. From the...
In 1957. George C. Williams published a seminal paper that initiated new thinking about core evolutionary medicine topics, including the origins of menopause and aging. Nine years later he published Adaptation and Selection (ANS), a book that changed the course of...
There are two related and interesting articles on cancer evolution in a recent edition of eLife. The first is a commentary by Devon M Fitzgerald and Susan M Rosenberg, of the Baylor College of Medicine, on a paper in the same issue titled “TGF-β reduces DNA...
What factors should we blame most for the continuing pandemic of heart and artery disease throughout the Western world? The argument has endured more twists and turns than California Route 1. For years, the diet cholesterol hypothesis has held sway, with added blame...
