Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Co-Director, Evolutionary Medicine Program at UCLA
Scared to death
Human and non-human animals can be scared to death. This commonality points to a shared mechanism and evolutionary origin.
Distinguished University Professor and Sarah Idell Pyle Professor
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University
Adaptation to high altitude by natives of the Andes, East Africa, and the Tibetan Plateau
The principal stress at high altitude is hypoxia, less than the normal amount of oxygen in the air and, as a result, in the body.
Professor, Department of Biology
Duke University
Evolution and mismatch during the evolution of diet in hominins
Environmental and cultural changes imposed major shifts in diet during human origins. The impact of these shifts is apparent in the anatomy, physiology, behavior, and disease susceptibilities of modern humans.
Eiko Fried, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Leuven
Psychiatric symptomics: a new perspective on mental disorders
Why has biological psychiatry been unable to identify biomarkers reliably associated with common psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression—despite three decades of intense research efforts?
Edward P. Bass Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
On the nature of tradeoffs
Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Ed Yong, Science Writer
The Atlantic
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. They build our bodies, protect our health, shape our identities, and grant us incredible abilities.
Assistant Professor
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology, Duke University
How social interactions shape the genome
John Franklin Crowell Professor
Department of Biology, Duke University
Mechanistic models of metabolic diseases help explain why disease genes are maintained in populations
Department of Biology, Duke University
Mechanistic models of metabolic diseases help explain why disease genes are maintained in populations
Research Biologist, Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
Why mammal meat is bad for humans (and only humans)
Eating red meat (meat from other mammals) increases our risk for cancer, and for several other diseases resulting from chronic inflammation. This is uniquely true for humans, among all species on earth, and it results from uniquely human quirks of evolution and biochemistry. I’ll explain this.
Dr. Pepper received his Ph.D.