First EPSiG symposium on evolution and psychiatry

First EPSiG symposium on evolution and psychiatry

It was only a small meeting – by the standards of scientific symposia – barely 50 participants in one of the smaller lecture rooms donated for the purpose by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London. But, as Randy Nesse pointed out, it was a miracle...
The evolution of lifespan and age-dependent cancer risk

The evolution of lifespan and age-dependent cancer risk

In this recent (September 28th) paper in Trends in Cancer, Andrii Rozhok and James DeGregori, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, set out to resolve what they see as two crucial limitations of past and current theories of carcinogenesis, which explain...
Can lateral gene transfer cause disease?

Can lateral gene transfer cause disease?

Kelly Robinson and Julie Dunning Hotopp share a lab in the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, and jointly research the role of bacterial lateral gene transfer in human disease. We’re used to human evolution putting imported viral genes to...