Medicine was doing fine before Darwin. What great advances occurred because of the evolutionary thinking? Aren't humans beyond the reach of natural selection anyway?
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150 years ago?
Yep, during the Napoleonic wars surgeons simply sawed off wounded limbs.
And as for evolutionary thinking, we have a gleaming example in the form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Vaccines, which have totally eliminated smallpox, and almost totally eliminated polio from the Western world, as well as drastically reducing childhood deaths from measles, mumps and other once common childhood illnesses.
You can't be serious?
Evolution and medicine have zilch to do with eachother.
Or maybe not, now that we get better knowledge about the development of species all the time, maybe there is something we have and will learn in the future, that could help even in developing medicine and genetics etc. Just a thought.
But , i don't think that was what he meant :D
"Medicine and Evolution: Current Applications, Future Prospects"
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yup, medicine was great in the early 1800s and before. Antibiotics, artificial skin for grafts, organ transplants, hip and knee replacements, chemotherapy, CAT scans , MRI , vaccines, in-vitro fertilization, ultrasounds... OH, !! WAIT!! this isn't all evolutionery thinking, just scientific progress.
Humans have enough control of the environment they live in that some aspects of natural selection are diminished, but selection still occurs.
Medicine was doing fine before Darwin
Are you just saying things for the sake of saying things, or are you just fucking stupid?
Aren't humans beyond the reach of natural selection anyway?
Ironically, it's modern medicine and medical care that allows us to be somewhat beyond the reach of natural selection.
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