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Evolutionary explanations in medicine: How do they differ and how to benefit from them
2010
Medical Hypotheses
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They must differ from those of arising from other hypotheses and must not only be interesting to evolutionary biologists, but also useful to medical practitioners. ...
Adaptive explanations must be consistent with basic evolutionary concepts and must adhere to the physical reality of the phenomenon in question. ...
LaFleur for offering their views on this paper, from an ecological, veterinary and medical perspective, respectively. ...
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2009.11.003
pmid:19963325
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A Clinical Perspective in Evolutionary Medicine: What We Wish We Had Learned in Medical School
2011
Evolution: Education and Outreach
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Although we often integrate evolutionary concepts when we teach medical students and residents, the vast majority of medical students never receive any instruction on evolution. ...
Medical students have much to gain by understanding how evolutionary principles affect human health and disease. ...
Each of these questions can generate multiple hypotheses, many suitable for testing by the next generation of clinician scientists. ...
doi:10.1007/s12052-011-0362-1
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Evolutionary science as a method to facilitate higher level thinking and reasoning in medical training
2016
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health
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These concepts are designed to be authoritative and at the same time easily accessible for anyone with the general biological knowledge of a first-year medical student. ...
To facilitate the learning of evolutionary principles, concepts derived from evolutionary science that medical students and professionals should understand are outlined. ...
Based on evolutionary concepts such as natural selection, students should expect that patients carry medically relevant genetic variants and that these variants are unlikely to conform to socially defined ...
doi:10.1093/emph/eow029
pmid:27744353
pmcid:PMC5101907
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Evolutionary explanations in medical and health profession courses: are you answering your students' "why" questions?
2005
BMC Medical Education
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Summary: In giving students evolutionary explanations professors should underscore principles of natural selection, since these can be generalized for the analysis of many medical questions. ...
Medical and pre-professional health students ask questions about human health that can be answered in two ways, by giving proximate and evolutionary explanations. ...
Acknowledgements We thank two reviewers who generously gave thoughtful suggestions that helped us improve the manuscript. ...
doi:10.1186/1472-6920-5-16
pmid:15885137
pmcid:PMC1142319
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A theoretical review on the origin of medicinal practices in humans: echoes from evolution
2018
Ethnobiology and Conservation
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The emergence of medical systems, which integrate knowledge and practices related to health management, can be assumed as one of the reactions of the human species to respond to the pressures of diseases ...
Humans have been coping with diseases throughout the evolutionary history. ...
The hypothesis based on natural selection suggests a different situation, indicating that the origin of medical systems is not necessarily based on learning. ...
doi:10.15451/ec2018-02-7.03-1-7
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Emergence of Evolutionary Medicine: Publication Trends from 1991–2010
2012
Journal of Evolutionary Medicine
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Evolutionary medicine, the intersection of evolutionary biology and medical sciences, has grown in the last two decades. ...
These results support the view that evolutionary medicine is a well-grounded concept that has emerged as a distinct area of scientific inquiry. ...
" or "Darwinian medicine" 1.366 0.00419 Journal of Virology Selection, Genetic 5.189 0.2123 Medical Hypotheses "Evolutionary medicine" or "Darwinian medicine" 1.389 0.0127 PLoS One "Evolutionary medicine ...
doi:10.4303/jem/235572
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Emerging programmed aging mechanisms and their medical implications
2016
Medical Hypotheses
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For many generations programmed aging in humans was considered theoretically impossible and medical attempts to treat or delay age-related diseases were based on non-programmed aging theories. ...
This article describes the very different disease mechanism concepts that logically result from the theories and the impacts emerging programmed aging mechanisms will have on funding and performing medical ...
[1, 2, 3] ) are based on the idea that each species has an evolutionary need to survive and reproduce for a particular species-specific period and that beyond that period there is no net evolutionary ...
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2015.10.015
pmid:26547271
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Evolutionary medicine: update on the relevance to family practice
2008
Canadian Family Physician
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Its practical utility will be proven through the generation of testable hypotheses and their application in relation to disease causation and possible prevention. ...
Evolutionary medicine should be studied further and incorporated into medical training and practice. ...
Physicians, however, are in general poorly prepared to evaluate literature on evolutionary medicine, possibly in part because of a lack of exposure to evolutionary medicine during training. ...
pmid:18791103
pmcid:PMC2553465
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EVOLUTION AND MEDICINE IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: A PRESCRIPTION FOR ALL BIOLOGY STUDENTS
2012
Evolution
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Here, we frame key evolutionary concepts in terms of human health, so that biomedical examples may be more easily incorporated into evolution courses or more specialized courses on evolutionary medicine ...
We advocate that understanding the natural history and evolutionary biology of humans and their pathogens gives perspective to the medical sciences, with the potential to inform medical practice on many ...
Students who are not typically excited by basic evolutionary concepts may be drawn in by focusing on human health. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01552.x
pmid:22671563
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204 - Social Health and Dementia
2020
International Psychogeriatrics
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Dr., Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland, joanna.rymaszewska@umed.wroc.pl and on behalf of the SHARED ConsortiumIntroduction:Over the past years the scientific discourse on health ...
In a final third phase we integrated both strands, agreed on the knowledge base by stepwise discursive consensus and created the CLD.Results:The CLD model includes 73 unique factors directly or indirectly ...
In a final third phase we integrated both strands, agreed on the knowledge base by stepwise discursive consensus and created the CLD. ...
doi:10.1017/s1041610220001945
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Understanding pathogens in the era of next generation sequencing
2012
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
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Finally, it is hypothesized that a microorganism can, through evolutionary time, switch between commensal and pathogenic states [7] . ...
Moreover, a generally accepted definition is not forthcoming among medical microbiologists, immunologists, and physicians. ...
doi:10.3855/jidc.3012
pmid:23000871
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Reflections on the use of hypotheses in ethnobotany: A response to Leonti et al. (2020)
2021
Ethnobotany Research and Applications
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In this article, we examine the review by Leonti et al. (2020) on the use of hypotheses in ethnobotany and we argue that the authors presented two main argumentative deficiencies on their analysis: superficiality ...
We discussed the main criticisms of the diversification hypothesis, the utilitarian redundancy model and the availability hypothesis and reinforced the importance of using ecological and evolutionary scenarios ...
With the proposal to review some of the hypotheses developed in ethnobotany, and which are based on ecological and evolutionary scenarios, Leonti et al. (2020) argue that they do not contribute to advance ...
doi:10.32859/era.21.18.1-5
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The history, status and teaching of Darwinian medicine in Norway
2009
Norsk Epidemiologi
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These ideas found their</p><p align="left">way into textbooks in 1996, and are also evaluated for inclusion in the curricula at several Norwegian</p><p align="left">medical and nursing schools. ...
This paper also presents how, in one of the textbooks, Darwinian medicine</p><p>is integrated into an ecological health theory within the framework of human-environment interaction.</p></span></span> ...
It is my experience that medical personnel immediately grasp the value of the evolutionary approach, even though they may be reluctant to accept the various hypotheses (which is a sound attitude since ...
doi:10.5324/nje.v8i1.434
fatcat:46sz7w22wra3dhijn4du4n3x7i
Islamic Medicine and Evolutionary Medicine: A Comparative Analysis
2012
Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America
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One of the strengths of evolutionary medicine is that it follows a multi-disciplinary approach. Such an approach is vital to future biomedicine as it enables for the infiltration of new ideas. ...
The advent of evolutionary medicine in the last two decades has provided new insights into the causes of human disease and possible preventative strategies. ...
I would also argue that evolutionary medicine can draw upon concepts of Islamic medicine in order to make the former's hypotheses more rigorous. ...
doi:10.5915/44-1-8780
pmid:23864992
pmcid:PMC3708639
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Protective effects of vaccinations and endemic infections on COVID-19: A Hypothesis
2020
Medical Hypotheses
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Extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) Overall the organisms and individuals based on previous exposure to vaccines and infections come from the environment, internal sensors, memorized experience, and ...
We would like to highlight on possible reasons and the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) to support our views. ...
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109849
pmid:32480250
pmcid:PMC7248637
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