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Medicine, evolution, and natural selection: an historical overview.

The Quarterly review of biology - 1 Dec 2009

Zampieri Fabio

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Contemporary Darwinian medicine is a still-expanding new discipline, one of whose principal aims is to arrive at an evolutionary understanding of those aspects of the body that leave it vulnerable to disease. Historically, there was a precedent for this research; between 1880 and 1940, several scientists tried to develop some general evolutionary theories of disease as arising from deleterious traits that escape...

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PMID: 20039527
DOI: 10.1086/648122

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