Club EvMed Posts

Diagnoses of the fungal disease coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) are increasing and are anticipated to continue increasing under a changing climate. Yet, amidst disease underreporting, it…

Casting effects of early-life experiences in life history perspective is not news to this audience, but for the fields of developmental psychology and child development it…

Early life environments shape the development of the microbiome, which in turn influences human biology and health outcomes. Since physiological development relies on microbiome maturation…

Follow-up studies of individuals exposed in utero to the Dutch Hunger Winter (1944-45) are often cited as evidence that prenatal nutrition has lasting deleterious effects on adult…

The flashiest examples of parasite manipulation are those that kill, dramatic behavioral changes that hasten host death and ensure transmission. But what about the quieter…

Many cancer drugs give only a few months of benefit to patients. The reason for this is the evolution of drug resistance in the cancer.…

Are psychiatric conditions linked to Western, industrialized lifestyles, akin to other “diseases of civilization,” or have they always been part of human variation? Are psychiatric…

Ethanol derives from the fermentation of simple sugars, and fermentative yeasts are ubiquitous within terrestrial ecosystems. Animals that routinely consume sugar-rich fruits and nectar thus outinely…

Understanding how ​past genetic adaptations shape contemporary human health is a central focus in evolutionary medicine. In this talk, I will present recent research with…

Put the term “evolution” into google image search and most that comes back is a version of the “March of Progress”, an inference of which…