Ten questions for evolutionary studies of disease vulnerability

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 264-277

  Nesse, Randolph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwinian medicine; Disease; Evolutionary medicine; Hypothesis testing; Methodology; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951633793     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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