title: Improved medical understanding of human health.
abstract: The time has come to examine aspects of health and disease on a broader basis than immediate cause and effect. Recognition of the biological processes of adaptation shaped by natural selection has become a requirement for improved understanding of human health in the modern environment, and the time has come for its incorporation into medical teaching and clinical practice.
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D005075:Biological Evolution; D015984:Causality; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D004501:Education, Medical; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans