Evolution and Medicine

摘要: Evolutionary medicine is a new field whose goal to incorporate an evolutionary perspective into medical education, research, and practice. biologists physicians have traditionally been concerned with different problems developed ways of approaching understanding biological phenomena. analyze the properties populations in which change over time, while focus on care their individual patients. Evolutionists are ultimate causes phenomena, that operated during phylogenetic history species, biomedical scientists more interested proximate causes, operate ontogeny life individual. based belief integration these complementary views phenomena will improve our health disease. This essay reviews theory evolution by natural selection, as it was Darwin now understood biologists. It emphasizes importance variation points out differences between fitness health, discusses some reasons why heritage has left us vulnerable