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Darwinian Dentistry: An Evolutionary Perspective
With their 1991 publication in The Quarterly Review of Biology, “The Dawn of Darwinian Medicine,” George C. Williams, an evolutionary biologist, and Randolph Nesse, an evolutionary psychiatrist, essentially established the foundation for a new subject to be incorporated into the medical school curriculum. Evolutionary medicine (EM), also referred to as Darwinian medicine, is a term used to describe a new paradigm in medical education that attempts to understand modern diseases through application of evolutionary theory and human ecology.