Integrating Evolutionary Biology Into Medical Education

This book builds a compelling case for integrating evolutionary biology into undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, as well as its intrinsic value to medicine. It achieves this within the broader context of medicine but through the focused lens of maternal and child health.

Dr. Schulkin is a research Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington.
Dr Michael L Power is an Animal Scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Recently, his research has expanded to include investigations of hormones and other bioactive molecules in milk and the milk microbiome. He is the curator of the Milk Repository at the Smithsonian, which contains milk samples from over 200 mammals.

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