evolutionary medicine

The first day of my undergraduate course on evolutionary medicine comes with a new disclaimer, presented just after we’ve surveyed the syllabus and discussed my policies on attendance, accommodations and other fine print: We will not spend a significant amount of time talking about COVID-19.

The calculations were based on complex statistical models developed by Jordan Martin at UZH's Institute of Evolutionary Medicine.

In fact, some of the oldest Egyptian mummies were likely accidents, says Frank Rühli, director of the University of Zurich’s Institute of Evolutionary Medicine and head of the Paleopathology and Mummy Studies Group.

“There’s a cultural switch,” says lead author Shevan Wilkin, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Zurich Institute of Evolutionary Medicine.

Both of us are evolutionary medicine researchers.