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Evolutionary medicine

Defined in topic 5

The study of why bodies are vulnerable to disease, called Darwinian medicine by Williams and Nesse in 1991. Its founding move: diseases have no evolutionary explanations, but vulnerabilities do.

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The argument behind this term, its studies and its notes are in Reference topic 5 of the reference library. The book gives the practical version. Get the book.