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Editorial
. 2021 Jul 22:10:e69398.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.69398.

Evolutionary medicine

George H Perry  1
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Editorial

Evolutionary medicine

George H Perry. Elife. .

Abstract

In recognition that evolutionary theory is critical for understanding modern human health, eLife is publishing a special issue on evolutionary medicine to showcase recent research in this growing and increasingly interdisciplinary field.

Keywords: cancer; drug resistance; evolutionary biology; genomics; human evolutionary history; infectious disease; microbiology; pleiotropy; risk of disease.

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Conflict of interest statement

GP No competing interests declared

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