Evolution Medicine and Public Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Evolution Medicine and Public Health is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Low birthweight is associated with epigenetic age acceleration in the first 3 years of life147
Paul W. Turke, Review of Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics14
Serial passage in an insect host indicates genetic stability of the human probioticEscherichia coliNissle 191712
Life history traits and cancer prevalence in birds11
Survival of quick problem solver!10
Hygiene may attenuate selection for antibiotic resistance by changing microbial community structure10
Selfish evolution of placental hormones9
A multi-million-year natural experiment9
Phylogenetic prioritization of HIV-1 transmission clusters with viral lineage-level diversification rates8
Maternal mental health and economic autonomy in lowland rural Nepal8
The evolution of the human healthcare system and implications for understanding our responses to COVID-198
Low haemoglobin in arduous seasons is associated with reduced chance of ovulation among women living in the Bolivian altiplano8
First impressions of a new face are shaped by infection concerns7
A novel perspective suggesting high sustained energy expenditure may be net protective against cancer7
Can vaccines control bacterial virulence and pathogenicity? Bordetella pertussis: the advantage of fitness over virulence6
No evidence that spice consumption is a cancer prevention mechanism in human populations6
Using evolutionary principles to make clinical decisions: a case series of urinary tract infections6
Elizabeth M. Miller, Thicker than water: A social and evolutionary study of iron deficiency in women6
Pathogen disgust is associated with interpersonal bias among healthcare professionals6
Mother’s warmth from maternal genes: genomic imprinting of brown adipose tissue6
Evolution-informed therapy for kidney disease6
Double trouble: trypanosomatids with two hosts have lower infection prevalence than single host trypanosomatids6
The role of the behavioural immune system on covid-19 lockdown attitudes: The relationship with authoritarianism and collectivism5
Evolution of higher mesenchymal CD44 expression in the human lineage5
Evolutionary and empirical perspectives on ‘demand’ breastfeeding5
Norman A. Johnson’s, Darwin’s Reach: 21st Century Applications of Evolutionary Biology5
Cesarean section and breastfeeding outcomes in an Indigenous Qom community with high breastfeeding support5
Regulating community well-being through traditional mourning rituals: Insights from the Luhya People of Kenya5
Towards a new therapeutic approach based on selection for function in tumors: response to Dr. Mesut Tez4
Strength is negatively associated with depression and accounts for some of the sex difference4
A new perspective on tumor progression4
The Elephant and the Spandrel4
Little evidence that posttraumatic stress is associated with diurnal hormone dysregulation in Turkana pastoralists4
Implications of leg length for metabolic health and fitness4
Commentary—fat but fit…and cold? Potential evolutionary and environmental drivers of metabolically healthy obesity4
Phenome-wide association study of population-differentiating genetic variants around gene ACSL14
The evolution of antibiotic resistance in an incurable and ultimately fatal infection4
Evolutionary mismatch in emotional support during childbirth: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic3
Vanishing twins, selection in utero, and infant mortality in the United States3
Mats Lekander, The Inflamed Feeling: The Brain's Role in Immune Defense3
Sound reasons for unsound sleep: Comparative support for the sentinel hypothesis in industrial and nonindustrial groups3
Early life adversity, reproductive history and breast cancer risk3
Testosterone is positively associated with coronary artery calcium in a low cardiovascular disease risk population3
Squatting, pelvic morphology and a reconsideration of childbirth difficulties3
Discriminating between sick and healthy faces based on early sickness cues: an exploratory analysis of sex differences3
How market integration impacts human disease ecology3
The EvMed Assessment3
Wealth, health and inequality in Agta foragers3
COVID-19 and Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health3
Reconsidering the developmental origins of adult disease paradigm3
Could care giving have altered the evolution of human immune strategies?3
Reverse-engineering the Venus figurines: An eco-life-course hypothesis for the aetiology of obesity in the Palaeolithic2
Guillain-Barré syndrome2
Optimal non-pharmaceutical intervention policy for Covid-19 epidemic via neuroevolution algorithm2
Nausea, vomiting and conflict in pregnancy2
Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies2
Greater chronic morbidity is associated with greater fatigue in six countries2
The reproductive status determines tolerance and resistance to Mycobacterium marinum in Drosophila melanogaster2
Disgusting odors trigger the oral immune system2
Childbirth fear in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic: key predictors and associated birth outcomes2
Bet-hedging in innate and adaptive immune systems2
Take it to the limit2
Diagnostic testing and the evolution of detection avoidance by pathogens2
Embedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health2
Birth and household exposures are associated with changes to skin bacterial communities during infancy2
Signalling need for care: a neglected functional role of medical treatment1
An evolutionary explanation for antibiotics’ association with increased colon cancer risk1
An orally administered drug prevents selection for antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the gut during daptomycin therapy1
Different predictors of intimate partner and natal family violence against women1
Pain1
Tradeoffs in milk immunity affect infant infectious disease risk1
Sperm intrusion into the implantation-stage blastocyst and its potential biological significance1
Rethinking cancer evolution: from genetic mutations to complex information systems in tumor reversion1
Humans can detect axillary odor cues of an acute respiratory infection in others1
Biomarkers or biotargets? Using competition to lure cancer cells into evolutionary traps1
Associations of age at marriage and first pregnancy with maternal nutritional status in Nepal1
Senolytics and cell senescence: historical and evolutionary perspectives1
Kimberly A. Plomp, Charlotte A. Roberts, Sarah Elton and Gillian R. Bentley, eds., Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach1
Which ‘imperfect vaccines’ encourage the evolution of higher virulence?1
Lonely, stressed-out moms1
Non-pharmaceutical interventions and the emergence of pathogen variants1
Food insecurity, diet and mental distress among resource insecure students during COVID-191
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