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“The practice of caring for oneself is common today, and evolutionary approaches suggest self-care may even pre-date anatomically modern humans who evolved over 150,000 years ago.”

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Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

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“Once industrialisation ocurred, non-communicable (chronic) diseases (NCDs; e.g., cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cardio-vascular, and non-infectious respiratory diseases) started to rise and replace infections. Tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diets and the harmful use of alcohol are key risk factors for NCDs.”

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Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“Identification of environments throughout human history that have aided parasite transmission, as well as social or cultural practices that have contributed to infections, can help inform approaches that could be taken to mitigate infections today.”

Evolution Medicine Species Homo Sapiens Parasite

Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

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“In fact, the antimicrobial properties of saliva are why it is thought that animals have a natural instinct to lick wounds.”

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Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“Understanding and improving health and well-being in contemporary populations cannot be accomplished through the narrow lens of the present.”

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“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.”

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Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

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