The EvMedBlog, hosted by the Center for Evolution and Medicine at ASU, brings together essays by Core CEM Faculty, Guest Experts, and Affiliated Scientists to elucidate human health and disease through an evolutionary lens. Here we will explore mutations in the human genome, host-pathogen coevolution, human physiology across diverse ecological contexts, early life nutrition, and dozens of other topics at the intersections of evolutionary biology, medicine, and global health. First things first though, Dr. Randy Nesse disrupts the most powerful metaphor in modern medicine in Why the Body is Not a Machine.

image credit: Studies of the Arm showing the Movements made by Biceps by Leonardo da Vinci, c 1510 source: wikimedia