• Evolutionary medicine: its scope, interest and potential

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    : , Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Potential Influence of Winner-Take-All Markets on Human Evolution and Medicine Evolutionary medicine : its scope , interest and potential Aug 29th , 2012 by The Editors By Stearns SC : in  Proceedings of the Royal Society B : Biological Sciences 2012 Open access Stephen Stearns is the Editor of the new Oxford Press Journal Evolution , Medicine , and Public Health now soliciting papers for the initial year of open access publication without author's fees This review is aimed at readers seeking an introductory overview , teaching courses and interested in visionary ideas . It first describes the range of topics covered by evolutionary medicine , which include human genetic variation

  • Potential Influence of Winner-Take-All Markets on Human Evolution and Medicine

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    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Nutrient Signaling : Evolutionary Origins of the Immune-Modulating Effects of Dietary Fat Evolutionary medicine : its scope , interest and potential Potential Influence of Winner-Take-All Markets on Human Evolution and Medicine Aug 28th , 2012 by Neil Greenspan In the book , The Winner-Take-All Society 1995 Robet H . Frank and Philip J . Cook discuss a hypothetical scenario in which a new genetic technique allows babies to be engineered so that they have a 99 chance of performing 15 better on the standardized tests used in American college admissions , such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test SAT without actually being smarter in other contexts . In 1 of babies so engineered , a severe

  • See Mayan Pyramids from your Armchair

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    Home About the 2012 Blog Contact Space Nasties Could Eta Carinae Harm Us August 2, 2012 10:04 pm 3 Comments I’ve just been reading Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku . He is very skilled at making complex topics easy to follow . And that helps me to generate ideas rather than just trying to keep up . This is from page : 126 Gamma Ray Bursters releasing within seconds the entire energy output of our Sun over its entire life history about 10 billion years That amount of energy is hard to imagine . The current thinking is that a GRB is the result of a hypernova a super supernova . And all the energy would be released in two narrow directions which are known as a jets . The closest potential hypernova that we know of is Eta . Carinae This from : Wikipedia It is possible that the Eta Carinae

  • Nutrient Signaling: Evolutionary Origins of the Immune-Modulating Effects of Dietary Fat

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    : Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolution and Medicine High School Curriculum Supplement Available Free for Fall Classes Potential Influence of Winner-Take-All Markets on Human Evolution and Medicine Nutrient Signaling : Evolutionary Origins of the Immune-Modulating Effects of Dietary Fat Aug 22nd , 2012 by The Editors By Alcock , J . Franklin , M . L . Kuzawa , C . W . 2012 The Quarterly Review of Biology , 87(3 187-223 not open access Abstract : Many dietary fatty acids FA have potent effects on inflammation , which is not only energetically costly , but also contributes to a range of chronic diseases . This presents an evolutionary paradox : Why should the host initiate a costly and damaging response to

  • Evolution and Medicine High School Curriculum Supplement Available Free for Fall Classes

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    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition Nutrient Signaling : Evolutionary Origins of the Immune-Modulating Effects of Dietary Fat Evolution and Medicine High School Curriculum Supplement Available Free for Fall Classes Aug 21st , 2012 by The Editors This supplement , sponsored by 10 participating NIH institutes and centers and the Office of the Director . is available without charge for all of your students Paper versions are being mailed now , the web version is also available . The teacher’s supplement is now available For details see the NIH website for curriculum . supplements Grades 9 12 Students explore evolutionary principles and learn how evolution informs

  • Earthquake-Proof Table

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    Survive 2012 by Robert Bast Special Offer at Amazon Click Here Powered by MaxBlogPress Home About the 2012 Blog Contact Space Nasties Could Eta Carinae Harm Us August 2, 2012 10:04 pm 3 Comments I’ve just been reading Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku . He is very skilled at making complex topics easy to follow . And that helps me to generate ideas rather than just trying to keep up . This is from page : 126 Gamma Ray Bursters releasing within seconds the entire energy output of our Sun over its entire life history about 10 billion years That amount of energy is hard to imagine . The current thinking is that a GRB is the result of a hypernova a super supernova . And all the energy would be released in two narrow directions which are known as a jets . The closest potential hypernova that we

  • A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition

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    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Job Posting- Tenure Track Faculty Evolutionary Medicine Information Biology Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia CHOP Evolution and Medicine High School Curriculum Supplement Available Free for Fall Classes A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition Aug 18th , 2012 by The Editors Kuipers RS , Joordens JCA , Muskiet FAJ . A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition that holds promise for the prevention and treatment of diseases of civilisation . Nutrition Research Reviews . 2012 25(01 96-129. doi:10.1017 S0954422412000017 not open access Abstract Evolutionary medicine acknowledges that many chronic degenerative diseases result from conflicts between

  • Job Posting- Tenure Track Faculty – Evolutionary Medicine & Information Biology – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

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    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Skin microbiome regulates immune response . Implications for triclosan decision A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition Job Posting- Tenure Track Faculty Evolutionary Medicine Information Biology Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia CHOP Aug 16th , 2012 by The Editors See website for full info . Posting Department : Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Posted Date : 04 13 2011 Expire Date : 04 12 2013 Posted in evolutionary medicine Trackback URI Comments RSS Leave a Reply Name Real Name required Mail hidden required Website optional Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Subscribe via RSS or e-mail Information About Meetings courses People Resources Books

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