Evolutionary medicine
Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is a way to think about how and why evolution changed our bodies over time to make us sick or healthy. People use Darwinian medicine to study biomolecules. They think about how these small molecules in our bodies work together through something called physiological mechanisms. Physiological mechanisms are things our bodies do that make us feel either sick or healthy. People who study Darwinian medicine use these ideas to think about 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.