{"id":4528,"date":"2016-01-05T14:02:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&p=4528"},"modified":"2016-01-26T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T21:59:11","slug":"museum-hosts-your-body-by-darwin-a-look-at-the-role-of-evolution-in-health-and-medicine","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/museum-hosts-your-body-by-darwin-a-look-at-the-role-of-evolution-in-health-and-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum hosts \u201cYour Body by Darwin,\u201d a look at the role of evolution in health and medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

RALEIGH \u2014 Doctors often work to cure our ills as if we are malfunctioning machines and they are teams of skilled mechanics. But the human body is not a machine \u2014 it is a bundle of living material that has been produced over millennia through evolution by natural selection. Join author Jeremy Taylor for a closer look at how evolution shapes our health and transforms medicine when he presents \u201cYour Body by Darwin<\/a>\u201d at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Monday, February 1, 7 p.m. in the Museum\u2019s WRAL 3D Theater. Free; donations welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a consequence of our bodies\u2019 evolutionary history, it is a ragbag of compromises, constraints, imperfect solutions, unavoidable trade-offs and mismatches between ancient adaptations and modern environments,\u201d says Taylor. \u201cThis means that we will always need doctors \u2014 we can never free ourselves entirely from disease \u2014 but we also need insights from evolutionary biology working alongside them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using compelling accounts from people trapped in the disease process together with examples of cutting-edge evolution-informed research in fields as wide apart as allergy and autoimmunity, cancer, dementia and heart disease, Taylor will show how an evolutionary understanding of our bodies is changing the way we understand the nature of disease and how we treat a number of medical conditions, and is influencing medical research.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Taylor has spent a career in British science television where he produced a number of award-winning films. They include The Blind Watchmaker, with Richard Dawkins, for the BBC, which won the Royal Society\u2019s Scitech prize for science documentary, and Mindreaders for Channel 4, which won Silver Prize at the British Medical Association Film Competition. His first book \u201cNot a Chimp: The Hunt for the Genes That Made Us Human\u201d was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. This lecture tour is based on his second book \u201cBody by Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine,\u201d which was published in October 2015 by University of Chicago Press. Taylor will be selling and signing copies of \u201cBody by Darwin\u201d following his presentation.<\/p>\n

Support for this presentation is provided by the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine (TriCEM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4529,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}