“Understanding and improving health and well-being in contemporary populations cannot be accomplished through the narrow lens of the present.” EvolutionMedicineWell BeingDarwinismEvolutionary MedicineBiopaleonthologyPaleoanthropology Author:Kimberly A. Plomp
“Cancer is a threat to almost all multicellular species across the tree of life, and neoplastic formation has been a persistent selective pressure since the dawn of multicellularity.” LifeDeathEvolutionDiseaseCancerBiologyEvolutionary Medicine Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“Cancer progression is a complex process that develops across many years of an individual's life. It is not aging, per say, that leads to cancer, but the relationship between aging, the accumulation of mutations and the tissue the microenvironment that harbours potentially mutant cells.” LifeDeathMedicineCancerBiologyEvolutionary Medicine Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach