Evolutionary Medicine

Question 1

What is the aim of Evolutionary Medicine

Answer 1

To perform research in areas where the evolutionary framework is of huge importance

Question 2

Name examples of fields in which the evolutionary framework is important

Answer 2

Infectious diseases
Immunity
Cancer
Study of chronic and degenerative diseases

Question 3

Explain where the concept of evolutionary medicine stems from

Answer 3

The idea that adaptation and natural selection selected for the H&G phenotype over a very long period and that this is very different from the phenotype that populates contemporary western societies.
Gene varients that may have been advantageous previously may now be disease genes

Question 4

What may Evolutionary medicine help us achieve?

Answer 4

A better understanding of the biological basis of certain dieseases which appear in the modern environment.

Question 5

Could Evlutionary medicine become a basic science for Medicine?

Answer 5

Why of course!