Integrating Evolutionary Biology into Medical Education
for maternal and child healthcare students, clinicians, and scientists
Edited by Jay Schulkin and Michael Power
Table of Contents
Foreword, Charles J. Lockwood
Introduction, Michael L. Power & Jay Schulkin
Section I: Life History: Biological and Cultural Continuity
1:Evolutionary Medicine, Pregnancy, and the Mismatch Pathways to Increased Disease Disk, Peter D. Gluckman, Felicia M. Low, & Mark A. Hanson
2: Evolutionary Public Health, Jonathan C. K. Wells
3:Evolutionary Medicine and Women's Reproductive Health, Wenda R. Trevathan & Karen R. Rosenberg
4:Optimizing Maternal Infant Health Care: a focus on the 4th trimester, Alison M. Stuebe & Kristin P. Tully
Section II: Biological Regulation
5:Evolutionary Insights for Improving Pregnancy Outcomes: looking back to the future, Heide Aungst, Robert Rossi, Heather Brockway, Sam Mesiano, & Louis Muglia
6:An Evolutionary View of Homeostasis: bioenergetics, life history theory and responses to pregnancy, Robert Perlman
7:The Functions of MicroRNA in Female Reproduction, Michael L. Power, Caroline W. Quaglieri, Eda G. Reed, & Jay Schulkin
8:Evolutionary Medicine Viewed Through the Lens of Pregnancy and the Obesity Epidemic, Chloe Zera & Louise Wilkins-Haug
Section III: Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future
9:Darwin's Impact on the Medical Sciences, Fabio Zampieri
10:Tinbergean Approach to Clinical Medicine, Barbara N. Horowitz
11:The Role of the Immune System From an Evolutionary Perspective, Carsten Schradin & Rainer Straub
12:Evolution, Genomics, and the New Genetic Technologies, Louise Wilkins-Haug
13:Ecological Rationality and Evolutionary Medicine: a bridge to medical education, Shabnam Mousavi & Jay Schulkin