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Evolutionary medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease. It provides a complementary scientific approach to the present mech...
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Darwinian medicine offers a new perspective on human health. Application of Darwin's ideas to the evolution of pathogenic organisms, and consideration of their coevolution with their human hosts, has given modern medicine new insights into why we get sick and the ways in which we heal.
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Darwinian Medicine: An Evolutionary Approach to Modern Health & Disease ... In what is considered to be the founding paper which gave this particular brand of scientific research and application its name, Nesse and Williams' "The Dawn of Darwinian Medicine," published in 1991, garnered attention for the concept.
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The Evolution and Medicine Network ... This website is for scientists, scholars and clinicians working at the interface of evolution and medicine. While evolutionary biology has long provided a foundation for studies of antibiotic resistance and population genetics, its contributions to many other areas of medicine are...
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Several Darwinist bloggers have taken exception to my observation that Darwinian stories about the origin of diseases contribute little of significance to medical education, research, ... What I'm arguing is that the truth or falsehood of Darwinian stories is of no tangible value to medicine. Consider the following example.
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What is Darwinian Medicine? ... Links to Darwinian Medicine Web Resources ... Syllabus for University of Michigan Course on Darwinian Medicine...
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