Evolutionary approach to medicine.

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Evolutionary approach to medicine.

Southern medical journal - 1 Jan 2001

Berlim M T, Abeche A M

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A new discipline in the medical field, called Darwinian (or evolutionary) Medicine, has arisen to study how natural selection could shape a machine as complex as the human body without eliminating its vulnerability to diseases. It asserts that systems and organs that form our bodies result from millions of years of evolutionary advances and are designed to survive in order to reproduce. According to this...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Fever
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Hypertension
Infections
Iron Overload
Medicine
Philosophy, Medical
Selection, Genetic
Specialization

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PMID: 11213938

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