how does evolutionary biology underpin human health and dise

how does evolutionary biology underpin human health and disease. Please provide 3 answers

Solution

1. It asks evolutionary questions to clearly explain our vulnerability to disease. The knowledge of human genome has also allowed a level of evolutionary analysis.

2. It says pattern of disease reflects, an increasing proportion of the population achieving greater longevity example cancer show progressive increase in incidence as age advance, this risk of cancer is attributed to living longer.

3. It aims to address why, despite milennia of evolutionary history for selection pressure, the human body is still vulnerable to diseases. The selection operates at slow tempo and has become outpaced by the speed of environmental change and this causes our bodies to mismatch and unable to cope with deleterious effects on health.

Other pathways by which evolutionary process modulate disease vulnerability are

Human pathogen co-evolution

Life history associated factors

Sexual selection etc.