In his essay (2011) on the history of Darwinian (or evolutionary) medicine, Jonathan Fuller describes potentially relevant interests and insights that preceded the famous paper by Nesse and Williams (1991) that is widely regarded as having catalyzed the resurgence of...
Medicine, evolution and natural selection: An historical overview By Fabio Zampieri Quarterly Review of Biology 84 (4) 2009, p 333-355. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the history of evolutionary approaches to medicine. It provides the fascinating and...
Diseases, human history and co-evolution with pathogens Peter Gluckman and Tatjana Buklijas Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Leprosy and kuru may at first glance seem to be diseases with little in common, except, perhaps, their large...
Do worms protect us against autoimmune diseases? The epidemiological evidence is strongly suggestive. Ethiopian, Brazilian, Venezuelan, and Gambian adults have less asthma when infected with nematodes; Gabonese schoolchildren with schistosomiasis have fewer allergic...
One July 1, 1858, a pair of papers presented to the Linnean Society in London announced the discovery of natural selection to the scientific world. One was by Charles Darwin, the other by Alfred Wallace. Neither man was present at the meeting, which...