David Kennedy and Andrew Read have kindly supplied the following teaser for their latest paper in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B. As they point out, this “armchair speculation” has elicited a gamut of reactions ranging from awe to scorn and so we are...
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...
