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#IEMevents : excellent seminar this evening by Raphaëlle Chaix and Léa Guyon on kinship and genetic diversity. Turns out that you don't need warfare to explain the neolithic bottleneck in Y chromosome, and that purging deleterious alleles through inbreeding doesn't work for humans
Where is #EvolutionaryMedicine headed? This superbly-produced video from @frontiersin provides fascinating prognostications from leaders in the field. My talk describes why two main lines of work remain separate, and how selection forces in the academy shape systems that maximize…
🚨JOB ALERT! PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!🚨 TT asst prof in Evolutionary One Health @uzh_ch! Ideal candidates study zoonotic disease, pathogen (resistance) evolution, etc. Focus on aDNA is encouraged but not required, genetic labs available. Joint appt Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…
Epidemiologist Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera has received a #StartingGrant from Swiss National Science Foundation. With her project, she wants to study the #impacts of extreme humid #heat on human #health . #Climatechange will increasingly make this a problem: sohub.io/2t6x.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH
Excited to report that my coming book about the evolution of the public health approach has a website
press.jhu.edu/books/title/12…
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#AlSommer
Rich Besser
Laura Magaña V.
Jerome Adams
Michael Fraser
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Interested in mental health from an evolutionary perspective? Come join our symposium 'Evolutionary Psychiatry: From Theory To Therapy' featuring Ed Hagen Kristen Syme Brandon Kohrt Amber Thalmayer Riadh Abed + Marco Del Giudice! May 15 12:45-17:45 CET. uzh.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Only one month left to go until the 5th International Evolutionary Psychiatry Symposium on 10 March at the RCPsych, London. Speakers include Prof Nichola Raihani, C A Soper, Agnes Ayton 💙, Muzaffer Kaser 💙, Laith Al-Shawaf ليث الشواف and more!
Find out more and book here: bit.ly/3XhJaOk
#IEMpubs : Review paper on personality in social behavior by Jordan Scott Martin, PhD, Adrian Jaeggi and Sonja Koski out now in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
I'm happy to share my latest PhD paper out now in NBBR, w/ Adrian Jaeggi & Sonja Koski! We develop a comparative framework for integrating the evolutionary study of personality and plasticity in social behavior across human and animal societies. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
How can evolutionary and engineering approaches to understanding failures help each other? I can't wait to hear what the world leaders in this area come up with. Join us. ISEMPH National Academy of Medicine National Academy of Sciences Evolution & Medicine Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) Science Foundation Ireland Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine
To our colleagues @uzh_en and ETH Zurich : Maybe you might be interested in the interfaculty launch event of the UZH Centre for Crisis Competence, entitled 'Can we Crisis?' (Nov. 22). More information below ⬇️(crisiscompetence.uzh.ch).
#IEMevents : Today we are fortunate to host Grazyna Jasienska 🇪🇺 🇵🇱🇺🇦 in our #EvMed seminar, talking about sex hormones, fertility, and evolutionary public health