Building on the success of their groundbreaking anthology evolutionary medicine oup 1999 wenda r trevathan e o smith and james j mckenna provide an up to date and thought provoking introduction to the field with this new collection of essays ideal for courses in evolutionary medicine medical anthropology and the evolution of human disease evolutionary medicine and health new . Building on the success of their groundbreaking anthology evolutionary medicine oup 1999 wenda r trevathan e o smith and james j mckenna provide an up to date and thought provoking introduction to the field with this new collection of essays ideal for courses in evolutionary medicine medical anthropology and the evolution of human disease evolutionary medicin. the developmental origins of adult health intergenerational inertia in adaptation and disease christopher w kuzawa an evolutionary perspective on the causes of chronic diseases atherosclerosis as an illustration paul w ewald genes geographic ancestry and disease susceptibility applications of evolutionary medicine to clinical settings douglas e crews and linda m gerber . Medicine and health new perspectives edited by wenda r trevathan new mexico state university e o smith emory university james j mckenna university of notre dame new york oxford oxford university press 2008 chapter 1 introduction and overview of evolutionary medicine wenda r trevathan e o smith and james j mckenna introduction in a recent doonesbury comic strip garry trudeau depicts . Evolutionary medicine em or darwinian medicine as it is sometimes called investigates human disease vulnerability and disease etiologies genetics behavior environment pathogens and so on from an evolutionary perspective em is a biomedical scientific concept of increasing interest since the 1990s 1 2