Integrating Evolutionary Biology into Medical Education for maternal and child healthcare students, clinicians, and scientists

Jay Schulkin, Research Professor, Georgtown University, Department of Neuroscience,Michael Power, Animal Scientist, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Dr. Schulkin is a research Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington.

Dr Michael L Power is an Animal Scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Recently, his research has expanded to include investigations of hormones and other bioactive molecules in milk and the milk microbiome. He is the curator of the Milk Repository at the Smithsonian, which contains milk samples from over 200 mammals.

Foreword Charles J. Lockwood
Introduction Michael L. Power & Jay Schulkin
Section I: Life History: Biological and Cultural Continuity
1. Evolutionary Medicine, Pregnancy, and the Mismatch Pathways to Increased Disease Disk, Peter D. Gluckman, Felicia M. Low, & Mark A. Hanson
2. Evolutionary Public Health, Jonathan C. K. Wells
3. Evolutionary Medicine and Women's Reproductive Health, Wenda R. Trevathan & Karen R. Rosenberg
4. Optimizing Maternal Infant Health Care: a focus on the 4th trimester, Alison M. Stuebe & Kristin P. Tully
Section II: Biological Regulation
5. Evolutionary Insights for Improving Pregnancy Outcomes: looking back to the future, Heide Aungst, Robert Rossi, Heather Brockway, Sam Mesiano, & Louis Muglia
6. An Evolutionary View of Homeostasis: bioenergetics, life history theory and responses to pregnancy, Robert Perlman
7. The Functions of MicroRNA in Female Reproduction, Michael L. Power, Caroline W. Quaglieri, Eda G. Reed, & Jay Schulkin
8. Evolutionary Medicine Viewed Through the Lens of Pregnancy and the Obesity Epidemic, Chloe Zera & Louise Wilkins-Haug
Section III: Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future
9. Darwin's Impact on the Medical Sciences, Fabio Zampieri
10. Tinbergean Approach to Clinical Medicine, Barbara N. Horowitz
11. The Role of the Immune System From an Evolutionary Perspective, Carsten Schradin & Rainer Straub
12. Evolution, Genomics, and the New Genetic Technologies, Louise Wilkins-Haug
13. Ecological Rationality and Evolutionary Medicine: a bridge to medical education, Shabnam Mousavi & Jay Schulkin