Evolutionary Perspectives on Illness and Medicine | Douglas Crews | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Evolutionary Medicine explores our evolved biology as underlying disease and illness in today’s populations, as well as aiding in differentiating our protective defensive responses from conditions requiring medical intervention. Dr. Crews will consider how this approach can influence and improve modern medicine. Dr. Crews is a biological anthropologist specializing in evolutionary biology and human adaptability, as illustrated by senescence, frailty, stressor responses, and allostatic load within and across ecological and sociocultural settings, including Samoa, Japan, Kuwait, Poland, and the United States. His publications include Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives (Cambridge, 2003); Genes, geographic ancestry, and disease susceptibility: applications of evolutionary medicine to clinical settings” (Evolutionary Medicine and Health: New Perspectives, 2008); “Senescence” (Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Sciences, 2019). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx