title: Seeking a new biomedical model. How evolutionary biology may contribute.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The medical profession is not to blame for the limitations of the biomedical model with which it is often associated; the biology upon which that model is built is incomplete and bears some of the responsibility. Some of the more fundamental aspects of biological theory which are currently missing from the biomedical model need to be introduced in order to help provide a better description of the integrated biology involved.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  By considering the biological nature of the individual human being as an organism, this article introduces a brief sketch of a new biomedical model of the individual as a biological entity. Core to this model is the idea of individual survival in the 'struggle for existence' introduced 150 years ago by Charles Darwin in 'On the Origin of Species'.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Chester, Chester, UK. s.lewis@chester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D008954:Models, Biological