• DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61877-2
Corpus ID: 15306192

Evolution: medicine's most basic science

@article{Nesse2008EvolutionMM,
  title={Evolution: medicine's most basic science},
  author={R. Nesse},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2008},
  volume={372},
  pages={S21-S27}
}

• R. Nesse
• Published 2008
• Medicine
• The Lancet

The celebrations for the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth will be grand for good reason. Darwin’s discoveries are generating new insights faster than ever, especially in medicine and public health. Second editions of important books on evolution and medicine have just appeared, major conferences are taking place worldwide, and scores of universities now off er courses on evolutionary medicine. However, physicians are being left out. Most never take an evolutionary biology course, and no medical… Expand