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Yale University, University of Wisconsin, University of British Columbia: Known for: Life history evolution, evolutionary medicine: Spouse: Beverly Peterson Stearns: Children: Justin K. Stearns, Jason Stearns: Scientific career: Fields: Evolutionary biology, life history theory, evolutionary medicine: Institutions: Department of Ecology and ...
Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease. Modern biomedical research and practice have focused on the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying health and disease, while evolutionary medicine focuses on the question of why evolution has shaped these ...
University of Buenos Aires: Canada: Human Evolutionary Studies Program: Simon Fraser University Behavioural Ecology Research Group: Simon Fraser University Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture: University of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University Germany: Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology(discontinued) Ludwig ...
Nesse was the initial organizer and second president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and is currently the president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association , a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science , and an elected ...
Paul W. Ewald (born c. 1953) is an American evolutionary biologist, specializing in the evolutionary ecology of parasitism, evolutionary medicine, agonistic behavior, and pollination biology.
Daniel E. Lieberman (born June 3, 1964) is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his research on the evolution of the human head [1] and the human body. [2]
Her research has contributed to the understanding of the diversity and evolution of microbial life. Fraser is the director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, where she holds the Dean's Endowed Professorship in the School of Medicine. She has joint faculty appointments at the ...
Evolutionary therapy relies on the notion that Darwinian evolution is the main reason behind lethality of late stage cancer and multi-drug resistant bacterial infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. [3]