Evolutionary Medicine

Evolutionary Medicine For many years, evolutionary principles have helped with many different aspects of the medical field. These principles have significantly helped with providing scientists with helpful information in understanding different illness, and issues that arise in the medical field. More specifically, the cooperation of evolutionary biology with modern medicine has helped with understanding antibiotic resistance and susceptibility, spread of disease, and development of cancer. I will be discussing the antibiotic resistance and susceptibility of E. Coli Biofilms, the spread of Tuberculosis, and the changes in breast cancer cell DNA. These different examples are going to prove how evolution has affected medicine and illnesses within modern medicine. In 2013, a study on bacterial E. Coli was performed, by Jabus G. Tyerman, to observe how the bacteria reacted with different types of antibiotics. This study was performed over a 60-day period in order for the researchers to obtain some significant data. The
With antibiotic resistance and susceptibility, the E. Coli bacteria become resistant or susceptible due to the evolutionary principles of genetic drift, mutation, and natural selection. The spread of Tuberculosis involved a great deal of genetic drift because of all the different populations that had spread the infection around the world. Lastly, the development of cancer involves mutations, which is one of the most important things to understand about how cancer develops. It is so important to understand that evolutionary biology plays a role in so many different aspects of the medical field, and in order to help find cures for different illnesses or disorders it is important to look at the evolutionary side of things before jumping to any