Evolution: medicine's most basic science

@article{Nesse2008EvolutionMM,
  title={Evolution: medicine's most basic science},
  author={Randolph M. Nesse},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2008},
  volume={372},
  pages={S21-S27}
}
  • R. Nesse
  • Published 1 December 2008
  • Medicine, Biology
  • The Lancet
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45 Citations
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45 Citations

Evolutionary Medicine and Cardiovascular Problems
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In medical training is yet exceptional the teaching of evolutionary biology and its implementation for a better diseases comprehension, and there is no area in medicine where pathogen mechanisms considered “biological failures” with this different approach had been tried out.
Contribution of ethology to evolutionary medicine
Evolutionary medicine is a concept that arose mainly in the 1990s, and which applies evolutionary biological principles to human medical fields For instance, evolutionary medicine proposed that there…
Evolutionary and narrative medicine: are they compatible?
  • J. Launer
  • Biology
    Postgraduate Medical Journal
  • 2021
TLDR
There is a persuasive argument for teaching evolutionary biology in medical schools, in order to underpin an adequate understanding of the other basic sciences.
(Re‐) Defining evolutionary medicine
TLDR
For both the evolutionary and medical communities to reach a common perspective and obtain a greater frame‐work of medical thought, a comprehensive view of the evolution of the healthy human being needs to be introduced as a starting point during the premedical curriculum.
Evolutionary molecular medicine
TLDR
15 evolutionary principles and their applications in molecular medicine are reviewed in hopes that readers will use them and related principles to speed the development of evolutionary molecular medicine.
EVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATIONS FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE
TLDR
15 evolutionary principles and their applications in molecular medicine are reviewed in hopes that readers will use them and others to speed the development of evolutionary molecular medicine.
The Evolution of Evolutionary Medicine
For several decades interdisciplinary research has been pushed by funding agencies, science administrators and generations of well-intentioned scientists. Interdisciplinary research is needed, so the…
Rethinking Causation in Cancer with Evolutionary Developmental Biology
TLDR
This work uses the concepts of modularity and evolvability to show how an EvoDevo perspective can be manifested in cancer translational research, better suited for integrating the complexity of current empirical results and can facilitate novel developments in the investigation and clinical treatment of cancer.
Perspective: beyond storytelling in medicine: an encounter-based curriculum.
  • V. Prasad
  • Medicine
    Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
  • 2010
TLDR
The author argues that the primacy of the basic sciences in medical education sanctions medical practice based on reasoning from scientific principles, and offers a new approach to the preclinical years: encounter-based medical education, which elevates the doctor-patient encounter as the prime subject of study inmedical education.
An Evolutionary Medicine Approach to Understanding Factors That Contribute to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Six reasons why COPD develops in humans based on current evolutionary medical theories are discussed: evolutionary constraints; mismatch between environmental changes and evolution; co-evolution with pathogenic microorganisms; life history trade-off; defenses and their costs, and reproductive success at the expense of health.
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Current and potential applications of evolutionary biology to medicine and public health and recommendations for actions that would better connect evolutionary biology and medicine in ways that will benefit public health are reviewed.
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Using numerous examples drawn from many scientific disciplines, however, Hess does make a very strong case that past scientific developments have been strongly affected by cultural norms and power…
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This book discusses evolutionary thinking, research designs that address Evolutionary Questions about Medical Disorders, and the evolution of non-infectious and degenerative disease.