Dear Colleagues,

The field of evolutionary medicine has been increasingly expanding in recent years. It encompasses a variety of medical and biological fields, with the aim of better understanding medical issues and providing new insights for the treatment and prevention of diseases. Examples are novel ways to handle antibiotic resistance, predict infectious disease outbreaks, or to explain human growth, obesity, or related metabolic diseases. While advances in evolutionary medicine have been achieved to explain basic aspects of pathophysiology and paleopathology, steps towards clinical or public health applications are still rare.

This Special Issue is dedicated to all disciplines of evolutionary medicine that contribute to a better understanding of medical issues of public health relevance. This also encompasses contributions on the relevance of the physical, nutritional, social, and economic environment to human wellbeing, explained in a historical or evolutionary framework. A special emphasis will be given to contributions that aim at practical applications in public health or in epidemiology.

Dr. med. Nicole Bender
PD Dr. Kaspar Staub
Guest Editors

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• evolutionary medicine
• evolutionary public health
• historical epidemiology
• paleopathology
• ancient DNA