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cord-348394-ezxvgku6	Henneberg, Maciej	COVID-19 and Evolutionary Medicine	2020-06-16		.txt	text/plain	1020	66	42	Before the advent of effective preventive methods and therapies, opportunities for the operation of natural selection were very large -due to premature mortality, only about one third of individuals born had an opportunity to pass their genes to the next generation (Rühli and Henneberg 2016) . Because pathogen transmission via human contact was slow, worldwide pandemics were rare. Public health measures in many of past pandemics were very similar to those i ntroduced in the current pandemic, such as isolating sick individuals which was already described e.g.in the London Privy Council Rules and Orders (1666). Biological variability produced by mutation/selection balance, genetic polymorphisms, adaptive responses during ontogeny, life histories, and particular ways of infections and immune responses results in different phenotypic characteristics that enable some individuals to survive pandemics. Such "evolution proof" solutions are another way that evolutionary medicine can contribute to stopping the current pandemic.	./cache/cord-348394-ezxvgku6.txt	./txt/cord-348394-ezxvgku6.txt