It is therefore a critical concept for evolutionary medicine.

Evolutionary medicine as a field began in the early 1990s, but has grown dramatically in recent years.

"An approach to the prevention of anxiety-related disorders based on evolutionary medicine."

Such self-treatments according to evolutionary medicine are deployed to increase an individual's biological fitness.

Health management system, an evolutionary medicine process that regulates the body's responses to infections and injury.

Evolutionary medicine has found that under horizontal transmission, the host population might never develop tolerance to the pathogen.

The goal of evolutionary medicine is to understand why people get sick, not simply how they get sick.

Evolutionary medicine helps us understand why people do not have a thicker bone that would be more resistant to this type of fracture.

Evolutionary medicine is a perspective on medicine derived through applying evolutionary theory.

Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease.

Paleolithic nutrition has its roots in evolutionary biology and is a common theme in evolutionary medicine.

Relevant topics include epidemiology, paleopathology, paleodemography, bioarchaeology, evolutionary medicine, social interpretations of race, among others.

It is closely related to comparative physiology and environmental physiology, and its findings are a major concern of evolutionary medicine.

Evolution and Medicine: Shanks made contributions to debates on topics in what may be broadly characterized as evolutionary medicine.

The organisation is focused on funding research into epigenetics, phenotypic plasticity, physiology, medicine, and evolutionary medicine.

Evidence such as this comes from scientific disciplines like anthropology, paleoanthropology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary psychology and environmental psychology.

Evolutionary medicine identifies many symptoms such as fever, pain, and sickness behavior as evolved responses to protect or enhance the recovery from infection and injury.

According to evolutionary medicine, optimal virulence increases with horizontal transmission (between non-relatives) and decreases with vertical transmission (from parent to child).

He is currently director of the program in Evolutionary Medicine at the Biology Department of the University of Louisville.

"Therefore," the California team writes, "to understand individual predisposition to modern diseases, we must also understand our genetic past, the goal of the new discipline of evolutionary medicine."

Modern evolutionary medicine identifies them with physiologically based self-treatments that provide the body with prophylactic, healing, or restorative capabilities against injuries, infections and physiological disruption.

He has also lent influential contributions to the fields of mutualisms and sexual conflict and heads research programmes in evolutionary medicine, invasive social syndromes and fungal agriculture.

He is notable for his research on evolutionary psychology and evolutionary medicine, as well as the evolutionary origins of emotions and how natural selection shapes the capacity for mood.

Gregory M. Cochran (born 1953) is a physicist and adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, known for hypotheses in evolutionary medicine and genetic anthropology.