Evolutionary medicine

Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is a way to think about how and why evolution changed human bodies over time to make people sick or healthy. People use Darwinian medicine to study biomolecules. It is used understand how these small molecules work together through something called physiological mechanisms. Physiological mechanisms are things that bodies do that make people feel either sick or healthy. People who study Darwinian medicine use these ideas to learn how those mechanisms have changed over time. Understanding these changes can be important to know why some people are more likely to be sick than others.