Selected Articles

The following is a list of downloadable articles which are less commonly included in the literature on Evolutionary Medicine but which raise interesting ideas:

General:

Crews, D., & James, G. (1991). Human evolution and the genetic epidemiology of chronic degenerative disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Charlton, B. (1996). A new science of health: Salutology and the evolutionary perspective. Q J Med, 89, 233-236.

Haldane, J. B. S. (1949). Disease and evolution. La Ricera Scientifica supplemento, 19, 68-76.

Hutton, C. W. (1987). Generalized osteoarthritis: an evolutionary problem? Lancet, 1, 1463-1465.

Lindahl, B. (2000). Health and Evolution. Scand J Public Health, 28, 309-311.

Perlman, R. (2011). Evolutionary Biology - a basic science for medicine in the 21st century. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 54(1), 75-88.

Russell, W., & Russell, C. (1983). Evolutionary and social aspects of disease. Ecology of Disease, 2, 95-106.

Scriver, C. (1984). An evolutionary view of disease in Man. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 220, 273-298.

Southwood, T. (1987). The natural environment and disease: an evolutionary perspective. British Medical Journal, 294, 1086-1089.

On Medical Education:

Abbott, A., & Abboud, G. (2006). Evolutionary medicine: A model for medical school introduction. Medical Education, 40 (5 (May)), 471-472.

Berlim, M., & Abeche, A. (2001). Evolutionary approach to medicine. Southern Medical Journal, 94 (1), 26-32.

Charlton, B. (1997). A syllabus for evolutionary medicine. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 90, 397-399.

Weiner, H. (1998). Notes on an evolutionary medicine. Psychosomatic Medicine, 60, 510-520.