title: Evolution and disease.
abstract: A recent meeting highlighted how much Darwinian thinking on natural selection illuminates the background to some major current human diseases and may offer insight into many more. Nigel Williams reports on a field seeking a place in mainstream medical education.
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000235:genetics; D000354:Africa, Western / Q000453:epidemiology; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000469:parasitology; D009154:Mutation; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000472:pathogenicity; D010966:Plasmodium vivax / Q000472:pathogenicity; D013789:Thalassemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics