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Sarah Elton's Outputs (16)

Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects (Introduction) (2008)
Book Chapter
Elton, S., & O’Higgins, P. (2008). Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects (Introduction). In P. O’Higgins, & S. Elton (Eds.), Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects (1-8). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420051377

There is increasing interest in examining aspects of health and disease in the context of evolutionary theory [1, 2, 3], and the past decade has witnessed the rise of evolutionary or ‘Darwinian’ medicine as an entity distinct from anthropology, evolu... Read More about Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects (Introduction).

Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation and polycystic ovary syndrome (2008)
Book Chapter
Shaw, L., & Elton, S. (2008). Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation and polycystic ovary syndrome. In S. Elton, & P. O’Higgins (Eds.), Medicine and evolution : current applications, future prospects (77-97). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420051377.ch5

Stein and Leventhal’s finding of polycystic ovaries, which they eponymously described as part of a circumscribed clinical syndrome [1], has evolved to become a nebulous entity with polycystic ovaries as a prominent component. Biochemical aspects, bot... Read More about Seasonality, climatic unpredictability, food deprivation and polycystic ovary syndrome.

Environments, adaptation and evolutionary medicine: should we be eating a ‘Stone Age’ diet? (2008)
Book Chapter
Elton, E. (2008). Environments, adaptation and evolutionary medicine: should we be eating a ‘Stone Age’ diet?. In P. O’Higgins, & S. Elton (Eds.), Medicine and evolution: current applications, future prospects (9-34). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420051377.ch2

A central tenet of evolutionary or Darwinian medicine is that many chronic diseases and degenerative conditions evident in modern Western populations have arisen because of a mismatch between ‘Stone Age’ genes and recently-adopted lifestyles [1 – 5].... Read More about Environments, adaptation and evolutionary medicine: should we be eating a ‘Stone Age’ diet?.