Evolutionary principles provide new insights into human health and disease, enhancing our understanding of human biology and medicine.

How evolutionary principles improve the understanding of human health and disease

Evolutionary biology practices can promote sustainable outcomes in food, health, and environment sectors by slowing unwanted evolution, reducing fitness in harmful species, and improving group performance in valued organisms.

Applying evolutionary biology to address global challenges

Evolutionary potential exists in populations facing detrimental environmental or genetic change, but further studies are needed for more robust and general insights.

The Contemporary Evolution of Fitness

Evolution influences health, with ageing likely originating from evolutionary trade-offs in growth, reproduction, and long-term bodily maintenance.

Understanding Health from an Evolutionary Perspective

Fitness landscape theory links evolution, molecular biology, and systems biology, enabling a direct link between the three fields.

Evolution in the light of fitness landscape theory.

Fitness plays a crucial role in evolutionary genetics, predicting population genetic composition changes over time and highlighting unresolved problems in understanding fitness.

Fitness and its role in evolutionary genetics

Evolutionary public health focuses on incorporating an evolutionary perspective into public health interventions, potentially improving their effectiveness and addressing complex global health challenges.

Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept

EvoSysBio combines evolutionary theory and systems biology to quantify small effects of mutations and their epistatic interactions in silico, benefiting both fields and providing valuable insights for drug design, cancer research, and responsible genetic engineering.

A framework for evolutionary systems biology

Including fluctuating environments and density dependence in the definition of fitness is crucial for estimating the potential of evolutionary rescue in populations affected by environmental perturbations like climate change.

The concept of fitness in fluctuating environments.

This study presents a formal equation for the evolutionary action of protein-coding mutations on fitness, linking point mutations to function and fitness, and bridges molecular evolution with population genetics for applications in protein design and clinical assessment.

A formal perturbation equation between genotype and phenotype determines the Evolutionary Action of protein-coding variations on fitness

Incorporating variance in fitness associated with environmental uncertainty can lead to diverse evolutionary strategies, resulting in negative covariance in fitness outcomes.

Fitness, Uncertainty, and the Role of Diversification in Evolution and Behavior

Evolutionary biology offers valuable insights and technologies for medicine and public health, challenging the body as a machine designed by an engineer and offering new research questions and a coherent medical education framework.

The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health

This textbook explains the principles of evolutionary biology from a medical perspective and demonstrates its practical application in understanding human health and disease, including nutrition, reproduction, infectious disease, stress, and human behavior.

Principles of Evolutionary Medicine

Incorporating evolutionary biology into medicine can enhance students' understanding of health and disease, emphasizing the importance of environmental risk factors and behavioral interventions for disease prevention.

Evolutionary Biology: A Basic Science for Medicine

Teaching evolutionary principles in a college-level health promotion course improves understanding of fundamental concepts, decreases misconceptions, and increases acceptance of human evolution.

Teaching Evolutionary Principles in Health Promotion: A Pilot Study

Evolutionary principles can enhance medicine, agriculture, conservation, and environmental science by addressing problems related to variation, selection, connectivity, and eco-evolutionary dynamics.

Evolutionary principles and their practical application

This book offers valuable insights into mental health and links between physical and mental health, but could benefit from more discussion on schizophrenia and language.

Principles of evolutionary medicine

Evolutionary biology is crucial for medicine, providing an integrative framework for linking disparate knowledge and transforming the view of bodies as machines into a biological understanding of health and disease.

Making evolutionary biology a basic science for medicine

14 Core Principles for Evolutionary Medicine were identified, advancing evolutionary understanding in medicine, including vulnerability to disease.

Core principles of evolutionary medicine

Contemporary evolution, driven by habitat loss, overharvesting, and exotic species, impacts conservation efforts and should be considered in management strategies.

Contemporary evolution meets conservation biology

How can the principles of evolutionary biology inform contemporary health and fitness practices?

These studies suggest that evolutionary biology can inform contemporary health and fitness practices by enhancing our understanding of human biology and medicine, promoting sustainable outcomes in health sectors, and improving public health interventions.