A new validated tool for assessing knowledge about evolutionary medicine
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Misheva, T., Nesse, R. M., Grunspan, D. Z., & Brownell, S. E. (2023). The EvMed Assessment. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 353–362. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad028 (open access) A B S T R A C TBackground and objectives: Universities throughout the USA increasingly offer undergraduate courses inevolutionary medicine (EvMed), which creates a need for pedagogical resources. Several […]
A Frontiers Forum video with superb production quality and commentaries from leaders in the field, including Prof Barbara Natterson Horowitz | Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, and School of Medicine, UCLA Division of Cardiology, USA • Prof Randolph Nesse | Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Michigan, USA • Prof Daniel Blumstein […]
Volume 11, Issue 1, 2023 (In Progress). Read the current issue Original researchBiomarkers or biotargets? Using competition to lure cancer cells into evolutionary traps Anuraag Bukkuri and Frederick R Adler The effects of lifestyle change on indicators of cardiometabolic health in semi-nomadic pastoralistsZane S Swanson and others The reproductive status determines tolerance and resistance to […]
Two new open access articles provide comprehensive authoritative reviews of mismatch. It is wonderful to see work in this area developing so well! The one by Griffiths and Bourrat offers a comprehensive review with lots of historical context and special emphasis on the role of developmental origins of human disease: Griffiths, P. E., & Bourrat, […]