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Evolutionary Medicine
(redirected from Darwinian medicine)

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Evolutionary Medicine
A new discipline that tries to bridge the gaps between medical anthropology, paleoanthropology, and modern medicine, using as its tools the study of genetic relationships between hunter-gatherers and various Stone Age surrogates—e.g., !Kung San of Botswana
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A key area of focus in Darwinian medicine is the emergence of modern epidemics like asthma and obesity -- modern diseases resulting from changes in the environment which our bodies cannot evolve quickly enough to.
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They are correct to point out that Darwinian Medicine is historical in nature, but it would be erroneous to label it as a science, since it fails to meet the two previously mentioned criteria and is therefore not testable.
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