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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 ...
David Christopher Evans (born 1980) [1] is a Canadian palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who specializes in the evolution and paleobiology of Cretaceous dinosaurs in western North America. He received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. [2]
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 ...
Marc Johnson is a professor of biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the Canada Research Chair for Urban Environmental Science, and was the first Director of the Centre for Urban Environments from 2018-2023.
VU University: Norway: Evolutionary Psychology and Individual Differences: Norwegian University of Science and Technology: UK: Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution: University College London: Human Evolutionary Ecology Group: University College London Origins of Mind Research Group: University of St Andrews Evolutionary ...
With appropriate selection, mechanisms underlying the evolutionary regain of lost biological function can be studied. [58] Experimental evolution of mammalian cells harboring synthetic gene circuits [59] reveals the role of cellular heterogeneity in the evolution of drug resistance, with implications for chemotherapy resistance of cancer cells.
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]
The Temerty Faculty of Medicine (previously Faculty of Medicine) is the medical school of the University of Toronto.Founded in 1843, the faculty is based in Downtown Toronto and is one of Canada's oldest institutions of medical studies, being known for the discovery of insulin, stem cells and the site of the first single and double lung transplants in the world.