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Editorial
. 2018 Dec 21;10(1):3.
doi: 10.3390/genes10010003.

Medicine in the Light of Evolution

Olga Dolgova  1 , Oscar Lao  2
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Editorial

Medicine in the Light of Evolution

Olga Dolgova et al. Genes (Basel). .

Abstract

Evolutionary medicine applies the principles of evolutionary biology to understand why we get sick rather than how, and it has undergone an exponential growth since the early 1990s [...].

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