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The ISEMPH abstract deadline is Friday, March 1 – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Abstracts for the 9th annual meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health are welcome for talks, posters, discussions and symposia. But the deadline is looming! Friday, March 1 is the deadline for abstract submissions for ISEMPH2024! Your abstract for a poster, talk, symposium or discussion will be welcome at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Society for…
ISEMPH 2024 Abstracts Due March 1st – The Evolution and Medicine Review
ISEMPH 2024 welcomes your abstract for presenting a talk, poster or symposium at the August 6-9 meeting in Durham. Abstract submission is easy and all registration fees are refundable until two weeks before the event. What would you like to share this year? Full information about the meeting is here.
Evolutionary Psychiatry Conference, August 5-6 – The Evolution and Medicine Review
A pre-meeting on Evolutionary Psychiatry is planned for August 5-6, immediately preceding ISEMPH 2024 in Durham, UK. All with an interest in how evolutionary medicine can help to advance the understanding, prevention and treatment of mental disorders are welcome. Members of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatry Evolutionary and members of the…
ISEMPH 2024 is open for registration and abstracts! – The Evolution and Medicine Review
A wonderful meeting August 6-9 in Durham UK for all interested in evolution and medicine. Discounted fees for ISEMPH members. And a 20% discount on membership fees until Valentine's Day! Special pre-meeting on Evolutionary Psychiatry! And lots of trips, fine food and conversation! Important dates Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2024, 5pm GMT Notification of…
An interesting article on the evolution of resistance – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Blumstein, D. T., Johnson, N. A., Katz, N. D., Kharpatin, S., Ortiz-Ross, X., Parra, E., & Reshke, A. (n.d.). Biological lessons for strategic resistance management. Abstract Biological resistance to pesticides, vaccines, antibiotics, and chemotherapies creates huge costs to society, including extensive morbidity and mortality. We simultaneously face costly resistance to social changes, such as those…
Schizophrenia: Recent selection for protective alleles – The Evolution and Medicine Review
New data and analyses suggests new explanations for the persistence of alleles that increase the risk of schizophrenia. A 2019 article by Liu, et al. suggested that rapid selection for cognitive and emotional traits during human evolution may have increased the risk of schizophrenia. The hypothesis gained support from their data showing that ancestral alleles…
A new validated tool for assessing knowledge about evolutionary medicine – The Evolution and Medicine Review
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…
New from Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health – The Evolution and Medicine Review
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…
The future of evolutionary medicine – The Evolution and Medicine Review
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…
Mismatch up to date! – The Evolution and Medicine Review
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,…
The Future of Evolutionary Medicine – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Thursday Sept 21 at 5 pm CET, 11 am Eastern daylight time. Free, but registration is required. A deep dive live Frontiers webcast and discussion, featuring Randolph Nesse, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Daniel Blumstein, Athena Aktipis, Bernard Crespi, and Molly Fox. Based on: Natterson-Horowitz B, Aktipis A, Fox M, Gluckman PD, Low FM, Mace R, Read A,…
New BBC article on Evolutionary Medicine – The Evolution and Medicine Review
How Darwinism is changing medicine, an article in BBC Future by Sophia Quaglia This open access article describes recent practical advances in clinical care made possible by evolutionary medicine. The focus is on how it can help slow the development of resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and slow the development of resistance of malignant cells…
New articles in EMPH – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Volume 11, Issue 1, 2023 (In Progress)Read the current issue Book reviewMats Lekander, The Inflamed Feeling: The Brain's Role in Immune Defense Eric C ShattuckOriginal researchA novel indicator of selection in uteroRalph Catalano, Tim A Bruckner, Alison Gemmill, Joan A Casey, Claire Margerison, Terry Hartig Maternal mental health and economic autonomy in lowland rural Nepal:…
4th International Evolutionary Health Conference – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The 4th International Evolutionary Health Conference will be on Sat Sep 30, 2023, at Boston University. This in-person event will be held at Boston University. This conference brings together worldwide experts to discuss the latest research and advancements in evolutionary health. Attendees can engage in discussions, network with peers, and gain valuable insights into this growing…
Hunter Gatherer Diets Revisited…with data – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Konner and Eaton's seminal 1985 article about Paleolithic Nutrition in the New England Journal of Medicine inspired decades of research and plenty of criticism. Yesterday they published a comprehensive update that reviews current data that addresses each of eight criticisms, concluding "The original depiction of Paleolithic nutrition has been subjected to legitimate criticism. Nevertheless, with…
51 Henry Stewart Talks on evolution and medicine – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Henry Stewart Talks offers a series of 51 lectures on Evolutionary Medicine by world experts. They offer expertise and production values beyond what any individual could create, fitting naturally into any course on biology or medicine. Together, they provide a nearly complete course. Almost anyone, student or not, will find them fascinating. The new overview…
Baylor University recruiting tenure-track for human health – The Evolution and Medicine Review
https://apply.interfolio.com/127194The Department of Anthropology at Baylor University is accepting applications for an assistant (tenure-track) OR associate (tenured or untenured) professor. This position is open to applicants with research and teaching interests in human health. Preferred research areas include but are certainly not limited to global health, evolutionary medicine, human biology, health disparities/inequalities, medical anthropology, psychological…
Expanding Tinbergen’s Questions – The Evolution and Medicine Review
A lovely article by Mel Konner expands Tinbergen's Four Questions to nine levels needed for a complete explanation of behavior. He makes a clear distinction between the organism and the world, and shows the causal connections between the components. This is a real advance in describing what is needed to explain a behavior. Konner, M.…
Postdoc position with Ben Trumble – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The School of Human Evolution and Social Change, the Institute of Human Origins, and the Center for Evolution and Medicine at Arizona State University welcome applications for a Postdoctoral Research Scholar working with Dr. Ben Trumble. The area of specialization will be focused on endocrine and immune physiology related to aging, and/or biomarkers related to…
New articles in EMPH – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Editorial On evolutionary medicine and health disparitiesC Brandon Ogbunugafor, Fatimah JacksonReviewEmbedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting healthPaula Ivey Henry, Meredith R Spence Beaulieu, Angelle Bradford, Joseph L Graves JrOriginal researchWealth, health and inequality in Agta foragersAbigail E Page, Milagros Ruiz, Mark Dyble, Daniel Major-Smith, Andrea B Migliano, Sarah MyersChildbirth fear…
Position available in Zurich – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zurich invites applications for an Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track for "One Health with Focus in Evolution". The One Health Institute (OHI) is a newly founded institute at the University of Zurich, which will hold initially three professorships in One Health with respective focus areas in evolution,…
The role of genetic selection and climatic factors in the dispersal of anatomically modern humans out of Africa “a platform for evolutionary medicine.” – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Tobler R, Souilmi Y, Huber CD, Bean N, Turney CSM, Grey ST, Cooper A. The role of genetic selection and climatic factors in the dispersal of anatomically modern humans out of Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 May 30;120(22):e2213061120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2213061120. Epub 2023 May 23. PMID: 37220274. Abstract The evolutionarily recent dispersal…
June 21 and 22 events at the University of Milan – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The 25th anniversary celebration of University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy will feature two conferences on evolutionary medicine. All are welcome but registration is required. June 21 2023. 14:00-17:30 The changing landscape of health: any role for evolutionary medicine?Speakers include Randolph M. Nesse, University of Michigan; Giorgio Manzi, Sapienza University of Rome; Guido Barbujani, University of…
A trade-off that maintains cancer vulnerability – The Evolution and Medicine Review
New evidence confirms that telomeres are shaped by the tradeoff between cancer vulnerability and faster aging. DeBoy, E. A., Tassia, M. G., Schratz, K. E., Yan, S. M., Cosner, Z. L., McNally, E. J., Gable, D. L., Xiang, Z., Lombard, D. B., Antonarakis, E. S., Gocke, C. D., McCoy, R. C., & Armanios, M. (2023).…
EMPH article on tokophobia featured in NYTimes – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The Times article is behind a paywall, but the EMPH article is freely available: The Maternal Nutritional Buffering Model: an evolutionary framework for pregnancy nutritional intervention Zaneta M Thayer, Julienne Rutherford, Christopher W Kuzawa Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 14–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoz037 https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2020/1/14/5711288?searchresult=1 Abstract Evidence that fetal nutrition influences adult health has heightened…
New articles on evolutionary psychiatry – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The June issue of World Psychiatry has two open-access articles on evolutionary psychiatry. These are among the first overviews on the topic to appear in a major psychiatric journal. Wakefield, J. C. (2023). The promise of evolutionary psychiatry. World Psychiatry, 22(2), 173–174. Nesse, R. M. (2023). Evolutionary psychiatry: Foundations, progress and challenges. World Psychiatry, 22(2),…
Telomere trade-offs – The Evolution and Medicine Review
An article in this week's NEJM provides some of the best evidence yet for the role of telomere length in the trade-off between slowing aging and the risk of cancer. DeBoy, E. A., Tassia, M. G., Schratz, K. E., Yan, S. M., Cosner, Z. L., McNally, E. J., Gable, D. L., Xiang, Z., Lombard, D.…
2023 Omenn Prize awarded to Jacob Palmer, et al. – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The $5000 Gilbert Omenn Prize for the best article in the area of evolution, medicine and public health published in 2022 in any journal is awarded by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health to: The evolution of spectrum in antibiotics and bacteriocins by Palmer, J. D., & Foster, K. R. . Proceedings of…
Williams Prize Winning article for 2023 – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The George C. Williams Prize for 2023 for the best article published in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health in 2022 is awarded to: Evolved resistance to a novel cationic peptide antibiotic requires high mutation supply byt Santos-Lopez, A., Fritz, M. J., Lombardo, J. B., Burr, A. H. P., Heinrich, V. A., Marshall, C. W., & Cooper, V. S. (2022). Evolution,…
Latest articles from Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Read the latest articles here Editorial COVID-19 and Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Charles L Nunn Original Research Articles Editor’s choiceHygiene may attenuate selection for antibiotic resistance by changing microbial community structure Magnus Aspenberg, Sara Maad Sasane, Fredrik Nilsson, Sam P Brown, Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft Disgusting odors trigger the oral immune system Stephanie Anja Juran,…
Last three days for Omenn Prize nominations – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The $5000 Gilbert S. Omenn Prize is awarded by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health for best article published in the previous calendar year on a topic related to evolution in the context of medicine and public health. Nominations close March 31 for the best article in any peer-reviewed journal on a topic related to…
Spring sale on ISEMPH dues ends this week – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Join ISEMPH or renew your membership before March 31 using code “ISEMPH2023” at checkout to get a 20% discount. Member benefits include: Substantially reduced meeting fees – Join and pay before registering for the meeting to get the discount Early notice about events, funding opportunities and the ISEMPH Newsletter A substantial discount on publication fees for articles…
Registration & abstract submission open for ISEMPH 2023 – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Abstract submission Meeting registration Travel and Lodging Program Membership discounts until March 15 using code ISEMPH2023 Evolutionary medicine is growing fast, and ISEMPH 2023 will gather delegates from around the world to share the latest advances and discuss current controversies. In addition to posters, talks, workshops, and discussions, the meeting will offer…
Predicting the future of evolutionary medicine – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Two new open access articles on the future of evolutionary medicine will be of interest to EvMedReview readers Natterson-Horowitz, B., Aktipis, A., Fox, M., Gluckman, P. D., Low, F. M., Mace, R., Read, A., Turner, P. E., & Blumstein, D. T. (2023). The future of evolutionary medicine: Sparking innovation in biomedicine and public health. Frontiers…
Gilbert S. Omenn Prize nominations open now – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The $5000 Gilbert S. Omenn Prize is awarded by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health for best article published in the previous calendar year on a topic related to evolution in the context of medicine and public health. Full information is here. Nominations are open in February and March each year for the best article in…
Can hygiene reduce antibiotic resistance? – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Hygiene may attenuate selection for antibiotic resistance by changing microbial community structure Magnus Aspenberg, Sara Maad Sasane, Fredrik Nilsson, Sam P Brown, Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 1–7, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoac038 Abstract Good hygiene, in both health care and the community, is central to containing the rise of antibiotic resistance, as well as…
Cancer cells as prey for immune system predators – The Evolution and Medicine Review
Jon Laman has called attention to an interesting article that applies ecological predator prey models to tumor growth. Jason Somarelli notes a related article. Both offer interesting opportunities. Hamilton, P. T., Anholt, B. R., & Nelson, B. H. (2022). Tumour immunotherapy: Lessons from predator–prey theory. Nature Reviews Immunology, 22(12), 765–775. With the burgeoning use of…
PhD Fellowships at Baylor University – The Evolution and Medicine Review
The Department of Anthropology at Baylor University is accepting student applications for a new PhD program in the Anthropology of Health (broadly conceived, including biomedical anthropology, evolutionary medicine, global health, medical anthropology, and other applied disciplines to understand past, present, and future populations). The program (https://www.baylor.edu/anthropology/doc.php/402552.pdf) emphasizes training in quantitative and qualitative methods, values diversity…