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cord-282059-sdumq61z	Nesse, Randolph M	The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health	2008-02-17		.txt	text/plain	13522	780	49	Understanding the body as a product of natural selection, not design, offers new research questions and a framework for making medical education more coherent. Much of the recent work in evolutionary medicine asks questions about why natural selection has left the body vulnerable to disease (Williams and Nesse 1991; Ewald 1994; Nesse and Williams 1994; Stearns 1998; Trevathan et al. Whatever the answer turns out to be, these Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health Nesse and Stearns ª 2008 The Authors studies have called our attention to the importance of the physiological state of mother and infant for the prevalence of lifestyle diseases later in life, with some well-documented effects delayed by several decades. This research ranges from well-established applications of population genetics and phylogeny to new applications of evolution to specific medical problems such as infectious disease and aging.	./cache/cord-282059-sdumq61z.txt	./txt/cord-282059-sdumq61z.txt