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Evolutionary Medicine Articles

How is Darwinian medicine useful?

Randolph Nesse, Western Journal of Medicine, May 2001

Application of evolution to medicine - what's the point?

Human compulsivity: A perspective from evolutionary medicine

Stein et al., European Neuropsychopharmacology, May 2016

OCD as a defence mechanism.  Who knew?

Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices

Sherman et al., BioScience, June 1999

This paper discusses the evidence of spices' positive effects and its connection to evolutionary forces

The Genomics of Selection in Dogs and the Parallel Evolution between Dogs and Humans

Wang et al., Nature Communications, 2013

My favourite paper we discussed in the Therapy Dogs podcast; it identifies genes we share with canines and 

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