Question

What is Darwinian medicine? Citing specific examples, explain how disease can be viewed from an evolutionary perspective.

Answer 1

ANSWER: Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application to modern evolutionary theory to understand health and disease. This evolutionary study has helped in important advances in cancer, anatomy and autoimmune condition. Darwinian medicine allows us to see tha body as product of natural selection and vulnerabilities that lead to disease. Anxiety disorders are the best examples of evolutionary medicine in action. It was present from the ancient times. In older days it was considered as a protective mechanism which was necessary for the humans to flee from a predator. However nowadays anxiety called as agarophobia is a fear of openspaces and tend to stay indoors is considered as phobia which when related to evolutionary biology it is the form of anxiety.