| Medicine, evolution, and natural selection: an historical overview. | |
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PMID: 20039527 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Contemporary Darwinian medicine is a still-expanding new discipline, one of whose principal aims is to arrive at an evolutionary understanding of those aspects of the body that leave it vulnerable to disease. Historically, there was a precedent for this research; between 1880 and 1940, several scientists tried to develop some general evolutionary theories of disease as arising from deleterious traits that escape elimination by natural selection. In contrast, contemporary Darwinian medicine uses evolutionary theory to consider all the possible reasons why selection has left humans vulnerable to disease. |
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Authors:
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Fabio Zampieri |
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Type: Historical Article; Journal Article |
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Title: The Quarterly review of biology Volume: 84 ISSN: 0033-5770 ISO Abbreviation: Q Rev Biol Publication Date: 2009 Dec |
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Created Date: 2009-12-30 Completed Date: 2010-01-19 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0376515 Medline TA: Q Rev Biol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 333-55 Citation Subset: IM |
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Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé, Genève, Switzerland. FABIOZAMPIERI@HOTMAIL.COM |
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Evolution* Genetic Predisposition to Disease History of Medicine* History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Humans Philosophy, Medical* Selection, Genetic* |
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