Teoria dell’evoluzione e Medicina. Segnalazioni

A Darwinian-evolutionary concept of age-related diseases, Pages 13-25
Georg Wick, Peter Berger, Pidder Jansen-Dürr and Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein
Experimental Gerontology, Volume 38, Issues 1-2, Pages 1-222 (January 2003)

What can evolutionary theory do for infectious diseases?: Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases by Steven A. Frank. Princeton University Press, 2002. £17.95 pbk (352 pages) ISBN 0 691 09595 7. Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases edited by Ulf Diekmann, Johan A.J. Metz, Maurice W. Sabelis, and Karl Sigmund. Cambridge University Press, 2002. £50.00 hbk (552 pages) ISBN 0 521 78165 5, Pages 68-69
Charles R. M. Bangham
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Developmental & Comparative Immunology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 257-350 (April 2003)
Workshop report: evolutionary immunobiology––new approaches, new paradigms, Pages 263-271
Louis Du Pasquier and L. Courtney Smith
Evolutionary immunobiology: new approaches, new paradigms, Pages 257-262
G. W. Warr, R. W. Chapman and L. C. Smith
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An evolutionary paradigm for carcinogenesis?
P Vineis, G Matullo, and M Manuguerra
J Epidemiol Community Health 2003; 57: 89-95
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Paolo Vineis
Cancer as an evolutionary process at the cell level: an epidemiological perspective Carcinogenesis 2003 24: 1-6.

Curr Biol 2003 Jan 8;13(1):R3-4
Evolution and disease
Williams N.
A recent meeting highlighted how much Darwinian thinking on natural selection illuminates the background to some major current human diseases and may offer insight into many more. Nigel Williams reports on a field seeking a place in mainstream medical education