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This 3 page paper analyzes an article that reports on an October, 2007 conference on human health and evolutionary biology. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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come out of the meeting was a paper suggesting that medical science needs to develop an entirely new branch: "Darwinian medicine" (Dybas, 2007, p. 729). The authors of this paper,
Randolph Nesse, pointed out that although there have been many technological developments in human history, culminating in the way we live today, "the human body the human body and
its immune and other systems remain essentially unchanged from those of our early ancestors" (Dybas, 2007, p. 729). Nesse wonders why the human body, a "machine of exquisite design," is
still full of "flaws, frailties, and makeshift mechanisms that give rise to most disease" (Dybas, 2007, p. 729). The question medicine needs to ask, Nesse believes, isnt how we get
sick, but why (Dybas, 2007). The answer to the question lies in the new field of "evolutionary medicine" (Dybas, 2007, p. 729). Todays medical personnel probe the "what" and "how"
of disease, but not the "why," which Nesse suggests is a question that needs to be answered; we need to understand "what things are for and how they got there"
(Dybas, 2007, p. 729). Nesse believes that doctors should ask "Why is a body vulnerable to this or that disease?" and Why didnt natural selection make the body less vulnerable?"
(Dybas, 2007, p. 729). If doctors approached medicine from a Darwinian perspective, he argues, they would discover that "another entire set of questions needs to be asked about every single
disease" (Dybas, 2007, p. 729). This field of medicine, about understanding why we get sick based on human history, is an entirely new way of approaching medical treatment, and one
which Nesse urges will receive further study. Eric Green spoke about the current work being done in genetics on decoding the human genome, and what that means (Dybas, 2007). He
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