The prodigious Emerald Snow has just sent in this commentary on the life history session. Thanks, Emerald! Caleb Finch opened this session by showing us an interesting case of antagonistic pleiotropy: the ApoE4 allele in humans. ApoE4 causes inflammation, brain aging,...
Thanks to Nicole Bender for this commentary on the metabolism and mismatch session – 21b. The session on metabolism and mismatch discussed examples of animal or cell models for human metabolic diseases. Nicolas Rohner described a species of cavefish that...
On behalf of Randy and myself I just wanted to thank all conference attendees who have sent in commentaries on the many sessions. I think, in all, I received and posted 19 commentaries – a terrific response! Randy and I hoped that we would get good science...
Nikki Burt fires in this commentary on the “Frontiers of Evolutionary Medicine.” See also, Ashley Snyder’s coverage of the same session. Stephen Stearns organized one of the last ISEMPH sessions “Frontiers of Evolution,” and, as you would expect, it...
