Can we understand modern humans without considering pathogens?

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-379

  Thomas, Frédéric ^a   Daoust, Simon P ^a,b   Raymond, Michel ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Behavior social evolution; Evolutionary medicine; Host parasite interactions; Life history evolution; Natural selection and contemporary evolution; Parasitology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860268996     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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