Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how
different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in turn, affect human …

Cancer drug resistance continues to be a major impediment in medical oncology. Clinically,
resistance can arise prior to or as a result of cancer therapy. In this review, we discuss …

Humans and viruses have been coevolving for millennia. Severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19) has been …

Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

Metabolism, like other aspects of life, involves tradeoffs. Oxidant by-products of normal
metabolism cause extensive damage to DNA, protein, and lipid. We argue that this damage …

Evolutionary approaches to the emotions have traditionally focused on a subset of emotions
that are shared with other species, characterized by distinct signals, and designed to solve a …

The hypothesis of group selection fell victim to a seemingly devastating critique in 1960s
evolutionary biology. In Unto Others (1998), we argue to the contrary, that group selection is …

Abstract Beckman, Kenneth B., and Bruce N. Ames. The Free Radical Theory of Aging
Matures. Physiol. Rev. 78: 547–581, 1998.—The free radical theory of aging, conceived in …

A growing body of evidence has begun to reveal flaws in the traditional assumption of
female passivity and lack of discrimination after copulation has begun. William Eberhard has …