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A multi-million-year natural experiment: comparative genomics on a massive scale and its implications for human health 数百万年的自然实验：大规模比较基因组学及其对人类健康的影响

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoae006

Iker Rivas-González, Jenny Tung

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Introduction to the Special Issue, Evolutionary and Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Sickness Communication 特刊《疾病沟通的进化与生物心理社会视角》导言

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoae005

Eric C Shattuck, Chloe C Boyle

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Could care giving have altered the evolution of human immune strategies? 护理会改变人类免疫策略的进化吗？

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoae004

Bethany L P Gilbert, Sharon E Kessler

{"title":"Could care giving have altered the evolution of human immune strategies?","authors":"Bethany L P Gilbert, Sharon E Kessler","doi":"10.1093/emph/eoae004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae004","url":null,"abstract":"Absract Life history theory indicates that individuals/species with a slow pace of life invest more in acquired than innate immunity. Factors that decrease pace of life and predict greater investment in acquired immunity include increased nutritional resources, increased pathogen exposure and decreased risk of extrinsic mortality. Common care behaviours given to sick individuals produce exactly these effects: provisioning increases nutritional resources; hygiene assistance increases disease exposure of carers; and protection can reduce the risk of extrinsic mortality to sick individuals. This, study, therefore, investigated under what conditions care giving behaviours might impact immune strategy and pace of life. The study employed an agent-based model approach which simulated populations with varying levels of care giving, disease mortality, disease transmissibility, and extrinsic mortality, enabling measurements of how the immune strategy and age structure of the populations changed over evolutionary time. We used multiple regressions to examine the effects of these variables on immune strategy and the age structure of the population. The findings supported our predictions in that care selected for an acquired immunity. However, pace of life did not slow as expected. Instead, the population shifted to a faster, but also more cost intensive reproductive strategy in which care improved child survival by subsidizing the development of acquired immune responses.","PeriodicalId":12156,"journal":{"name":"Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139584271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evolutionary and Empirical Perspectives on ‘Demand’ Breastfeeding: the Baby in the Driver’s Seat or the Back Seat? 从进化和经验角度看 "按需 "母乳喂养：婴儿坐在驾驶座还是后座？

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoae003

David P Tracer

{"title":"Evolutionary and Empirical Perspectives on ‘Demand’ Breastfeeding: the Baby in the Driver’s Seat or the Back Seat?","authors":"David P Tracer","doi":"10.1093/emph/eoae003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae003","url":null,"abstract":"Background/Objectives The concept of “demand” breastfeeding is central in public health. A key feature of the concept is that the infant is the locus of control in the breastfeeding process; when the breast is demanded by the infant, it is given the opportunity to feed. This study questions this notion of the infant as the locus of control in demand breastfeeding for empirical and theoretical reasons. From an evolutionary perspective, infants are expected to seek maximal investment and, against this backdrop of maximal investment-seeking, parents decide how much investment to put into offspring. Methodology Focal follows were conducted among 113 mother-infant dyads in Papua New Guinea. During these follows, response times and types of responses including breastfeeding to offspring fussing and crying were recorded. Results Infants were breastfed an average of 3.6 times/hour for just over 2 minutes/feed. Fussing and crying were responded to quickly, with most response times under 1 minute. When the mother responded, she breastfed the child approximately 52% of the time. The other 48% of the time, mothers responded to infants with other forms of pacification. Mothers were significantly less likely to respond to infants by breastfeeding if the child had been breastfed within the past 59-76 minutes. Conclusion/Implications As predicted by evolutionary parental investment theory, infants make frequent demands on their parents for investment, but mothers are ultimately the locus of control in the investment process. The mother decides whether and how frequently to breastfeed her offspring against this backdrop of near-continuous investment demands.","PeriodicalId":12156,"journal":{"name":"Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139510457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reconsidering the developmental origins of adult disease paradigm: the ‘metabolic coordination of childbirth’ hypothesis 重新审视成人疾病的发育起源范式："分娩代谢协调 "假说

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-01-17 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoae002

Jonathan C K Wells, Gernot Desoye, David A Leon

{"title":"Reconsidering the developmental origins of adult disease paradigm: the ‘metabolic coordination of childbirth’ hypothesis","authors":"Jonathan C K Wells, Gernot Desoye, David A Leon","doi":"10.1093/emph/eoae002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae002","url":null,"abstract":"In uncomplicated pregnancies, birthweight is inversely associated with adult non-communicable disease (NCD) risk. One proposed mechanism is maternal malnutrition during pregnancy. Another explanation is that shared genes link birthweight with NCDs. Both hypotheses are supported, but evolutionary perspectives address only the environmental pathway. We propose that genetic and environmental associations of birthweight with NCD risk reflect coordinated regulatory systems between mother and fetus, that evolved to reduce risks of obstructed labour. First, the fetus must tailor its growth to maternal metabolic signals, as it cannot predict the size of the birth canal from its own genome. Second, we predict that maternal alleles that promote placental nutrient supply have been selected to constrain fetal growth and gestation length when fetally expressed. Conversely, maternal alleles that increase birth canal size have been selected to promote fetal growth and gestation when fetally expressed. Evidence supports these hypotheses. These regulatory mechanisms may have undergone powerful selection as hominin neonates evolved larger size and encephalisation, since every mother is at risk of gestating a baby excessive for her pelvis. Our perspective can explain the inverse association of birthweight with NCD risk across most of the birthweight range: any constraint of birthweight, through plastic or genetic mechanisms, may reduce the capacity for homeostasis and increase NCD susceptibility. However, maternal obesity and diabetes can overwhelm this coordination system, challenging vaginal delivery while increasing offspring NCD risk. We argue that selection on viable vaginal delivery played an over-arching role in shaping the association of birthweight with NCD risk.","PeriodicalId":12156,"journal":{"name":"Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139506144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Host-gut microbiota interactions during pregnancy 孕期宿主与肠道微生物群的相互作用

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-01-06 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoae001

Katherine R Amato, Priyanka Pradhan, Elizabeth K Mallott, Wesley Shirola, Amy Lu

{"title":"Host-gut microbiota interactions during pregnancy","authors":"Katherine R Amato, Priyanka Pradhan, Elizabeth K Mallott, Wesley Shirola, Amy Lu","doi":"10.1093/emph/eoae001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae001","url":null,"abstract":"Mammalian pregnancy is characterized by a well-known suite of physiological changes that support fetal growth and development, thereby positively affecting both maternal and offspring fitness. However, mothers also experience trade-offs between current and future maternal reproductive success, and maternal responses to these trade-offs can result in mother-offspring fitness conflicts. Knowledge of the mechanisms through which these trade-offs operate, as well as the contexts in which they operate, is critical for understanding the evolution of reproduction. Historically, hormonal changes during pregnancy have been thought to play a pivotal role in these conflicts since they directly and indirectly influence maternal metabolism, immunity, fetal growth, and other aspects of offspring development. However, recent research suggests the gut microbiota may also play an important role. Here, we create a foundation for exploring this role by constructing a mechanistic model linking changes in maternal hormones, immunity, and metabolism during pregnancy to changes in the gut microbiota. We posit that marked changes in hormones alter maternal gut microbiome composition and function both directly and indirectly via impacts on the immune system. The gut microbiota then feeds back to influence maternal immunity and metabolism. We posit that these dynamics are likely to be involved in mediating maternal and offspring fitness as well as trade-offs in different aspects of maternal and offspring health and fitness during pregnancy. We also predict that the interactions we describe are likely to vary across populations in response to maternal environments. Moving forward, empirical studies that combine microbial functional data and maternal physiological data with health and fitness outcomes for both mothers and infants will allow us to test the evolutionary and fitness implications of the gestational microbiota, enriching our understanding of the ecology and evolution of reproductive physiology.","PeriodicalId":12156,"journal":{"name":"Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Take a load off: Skeletal implications of sedentism in the feet of modern body donors 减轻负担现代人体捐献者脚部久坐对骨骼的影响

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2023-12-23 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoad041

Malorie E Albee

{"title":"Take a load off: Skeletal implications of sedentism in the feet of modern body donors","authors":"Malorie E Albee","doi":"10.1093/emph/eoad041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad041","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Objectives Modern biocultural environments continue to place selective pressures on our skeletons. In the past century, a major cultural pressure has been the rise in sedentism. However, studies considering the effects of sedentism on the foot have largely considered pathological changes to the gross foot without particular regard for the pedal skeleton. To address this gap in the literature, temporal trends in the development of osteoarthritis and entheseal changes on the tarsals and metatarsals were analyzed in the context of biodemographic data for recent modern humans. Methodology The sample utilized for this project is comprised of 71 individuals from the William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection, with birth years ranging from 1909 to 1993. Temporal trends in osteoarthritis and entheseal changes were determined via ANCOVA, using year of birth as the explanatory variable and biodemographic variables (age, sex, stature, Body Mass Index, and tibial robusticity) as covariates. Results Results indicate that entheseal changes and osteoarthritis have decreased over time, and these trends are statistically significant. Temporal trends in pedal entheseal changes and osteoarthritis vary by sex. Conclusions and Implications The increase in sedentary behavior over time has usually been framed as a net negative for human health and well-being. However, considered in isolation, the decrease in entheseal changes and osteoarthritis presented here might be considered a positive development as they suggest overall less stress on the modern human foot. This study also has the potential to inform the health sciences and general public about biocultural contributors to modern foot health.","PeriodicalId":12156,"journal":{"name":"Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139055182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sperm intrusion into the implantation-stage blastocyst and its potential biological significance 精子侵入植入期囊胚及其潜在的生物学意义

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2023-12-23 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoad043

Jayasree Sengupta, Thomas Kroneis, Amy M Boddy, Rahul Roy, Anish Sarkar, Deepayan Sarkar, Debabrata Ghosh, Berthold Huppertz

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Spatial simulation of autologous cell defection for cancer treatment. 用于癌症治疗的自体细胞脱落空间模拟。

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2023-11-22 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoad042

Jibeom Choi

{"title":"Spatial simulation of autologous cell defection for cancer treatment.","authors":"Jibeom Choi","doi":"10.1093/emph/eoad042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad042","url":null,"abstract":"Cancer cells are highly cooperative in a nepotistic way and evolutionarily dynamic. Present cancer treatments often overlook these aspects, inducing the selection of resistant cancer cells and the corresponding relapse. As an alternative method of cancer elimination, autologous cell defection (ACD) was suggested by which modified cancer cells parasitically reliant on other cancer cells are implemented to the cancer cluster. Specifically, modified cancer cells should not produce costly growth factors that promote the growth of other cancer cells while receiving the benefit of exposure to such growth factors. Analytical models and rudimentary experiments up to date provide the medical feasibility of this method. In this study, I built comprehensive spatial simulation models by embracing the effects of the multiple growth factors, the Warburg effect, mutations and immunity. The simulation results based on planar spatial structures indicate that implementation of the defective modified tumours may replace the existing cancer cluster and defective cells would later collapse by themselves. Furthermore, I built a mathematical model that compares the fitness of the cells adjacent to the hypertumour-cancer interface. I also calculated whether anticancer drugs that reduce the effects of the growth factors promote or demote the utility of ACD under diverse fitness functions. The computational examination implies that anticancer drugs may impede the therapeutic effect of ACD when there is a strong concavity in the fitness function. The analysis results could work as a general guidance for effective ACD that may expand the paradigm of cancer treatment.","PeriodicalId":12156,"journal":{"name":"Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health","volume":"11 1","pages":"461-471"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10727474/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138801348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies. 睡个好觉!青少年睡眠质量跨越三种不同的睡眠生态。

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Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Pub Date : 2023-11-21 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoad040

Andrea Silva-Caballero, Helen L Ball, Karen L Kramer, Gillian R Bentley

{"title":"Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies.","authors":"Andrea Silva-Caballero, Helen L Ball, Karen L Kramer, Gillian R Bentley","doi":"10.1093/emph/eoad040","DOIUrl":"10.1093/emph/eoad040","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: Good sleep quality, associated with few arousals, no daytime sleepiness and self-satisfaction with one's sleep, is pivotal for adolescent growth, maturation, cognition and overall health. This article aims to identify what ecological factors impact adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies representing a gradient of dense urbanity to small, rural environments with scarce artificial lighting and no Internet.Methodology: We analyze variation of sleep efficiency, a quantitative measure of sleep quality-defined as the ratio of total time spent asleep to total time dedicated to sleep-in two agricultural indigenous populations and one post-industrial group in Mexico (Campeche = 44, Puebla = 51, Mexico City = 50, respectively). Data collection included actigraphy, sleep diaries, questionnaires, interviews and ethnographic observations. We fit linear models to examine sleep efficiency variation within and between groups.Results: We found that sleep efficiency varied significantly across sites, being highest in Mexico City (88%) and lowest in Campeche (75%). We found that variation in sleep efficiency was significantly associated with nightly exposure to light and social sleep practices.Conclusions and implications: Our findings point toward contextual cost-benefits of sleep disruption in adolescence. We highlight the need to prioritize research on adolescent sleep quality across distinct developmental ecologies and its impact on health to improve adolescent wellbeing through evidence-based health practices.","PeriodicalId":12156,"journal":{"name":"Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health","volume":"11 1","pages":"448-460"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10693291/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138477160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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