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February 18, 2025

The “Benefits,” Risks, and Costs of Routine Infant Circumcision

Are there medical benefits or should we give human evolution the benefit of the doubt?

December 3, 2024

A Theory of Everything for Human Illness and Disease

By identifying the evolutionary roots of our modern afflictions we can address the underlying issues that perpetuate our collective suffering.

June 18, 2024

(Mis-) Communication in Medicine: A Preventive Way for Doctors to Preserve Effective Communication in Technologically-Evolved Healthcare Environments

Cultural evolution created technologically-advanced contexts that make it difficult for doctors to communicate with patients in manners concordant with our evolved, ancestrally-familiar modes of communication.

August 6, 2012

Alarming Evolution of Nastier Parasites in Vaccine Study

Evolution may also play a role in how other diseases react to vaccines.

October 14, 2012

Has our War on Microbes Left our Immune Systems Prone to Dysfunction?

An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you're missing.

November 14, 2012

Evolutionary Pharmacology is at the Forefront of an Adventure in Crowdfunding

Funding evolutionary pharmacology research.