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But it wasn't until a few years after my daughter was born when I created and taught a seminar in evolutionary medicine at Harvard, that I thought to ask, and discovered a possible answer to, the question "why?"
The perspective of evolutionary medicine offers valuable insight, because it examines how and why humans' evolutionary past has left our bodies vulnerable to diseases and other problems today.
But as I hope to illustrate with my own story, understanding the implications of your evolutionary past can help enrich your personal health.
When I started investigating Tay-Sachs using an evolutionary perspective, I came across an intriguing hypothesis.
Evolutionary biologists call this phenomenon heterozygote advantage.
But this is only one of the contributions evolutionary medicine can make in helping us understand human health.
This delicate balance highlights the constraints inherent in the human body, and the fact that the evolutionary process must work with the materials already available.
It's also important to remember, when considering our bodies' vulnerabilities, that from an evolutionary perspective, health isn't the most important currency.
In evolutionary terms, this is a recent change.
For most of human evolutionary history, people used their vision across a broader landscape, spending more time in activities like hunting and gathering.
As for me, I won't claim that an evolutionary medicine perspective has always directly influenced my decisions, such as my choice of spouse.
This phenomenon, known as the Flynn Effect, happened much too fast to be caused by inherited evolutionary traits.
His famous evolutionary tree could almost be a diagram of the way we work.
And it has not stopped its evolutionary path.
I think it's probably the case that, in the human evolutionary lineage, even before there were homo sapiens, feelings like compassion and love and sympathy had earned their way into the gene pool, and biologists have a pretty clear idea of how this first happened.
Now, there's more good news that came along later in evolution, a second kind of evolutionary logic.
It's good that compassion was extended beyond the family by this kind of evolutionary logic.
And evolutionary psychologists think that these intuitions have a basis in the genes.
We're still trying to explain and come to terms with what is the evolutionary advantage of this.
And this is quite interesting, to find evolutionary origins of visual signals on what's really, in all species, their spring.
And so what I've done is, I've taken the same kinds of things and looked at other aspects of evolutionary life and say, "What are the general trends in evolutionary life?"
Another thing all these molecules are telling us that, apparently, bioluminescence has evolved at least 40 times, maybe as many as 50 separate times in evolutionary history, which is a clear indication of how spectacularly important this trait is for survival.
They diverged quite recently in evolutionary history.
Or, more importantly, HIV, where the virus evolves so quickly the vaccines that are made today can't keep up with those evolutionary changes.
I think it's evolutionary.
You know, so you can take comfort in the fact that this guy up here is a really really distant, but albeit evolutionary, relative.
In fact, they might be due to the very nature of our evolutionary history.
You know, think of our evolutionary predilection for eating sweet things, fatty things like cheesecake.
When you're watching your stocks plummet into the red, when you're watching your house price go down, you're not going to be able to see that in anything but old evolutionary terms.
Well, the sense of which I agree with him, except I think it has an evolutionary explanation.
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