Evolutionary medicine: its scope, interest and potential
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Evolutionary medicine: its scope, interest and potential.
This review is aimed at readers seeking an introductory overview, teaching courses and interested in visionary ideas. It first describes the range of topics covered by evolutionary medicine, which include human genetic variation, mismatches to modernity, reproductive medicine, degenerative disease, host-pathogen interactions and insights from comparisons with other species. It then discusses pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1326