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evolutionary medicine

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  1. The use of the principles of evolution to understand disease processes and design effective medical treatment.

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Rather than just seeking answers to how illness occurs, evolutionary medicine also asks why illness occurs.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There’s one student I can remember in particular who took my freshman seminar on evolutionary medicine.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2015

We are concerned, in fact, with the earliest evolutionary medicine.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

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