The Evolutionary Misfit: Evolution, Epigenetics, and the Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases
Stefano Amatori · 2025
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Stefano Amatori argues that modern chronic diseases are the price of bodies built for another world, in a 2025 essay. Life expectancy soared over the last century, yet heart disease, diabetes, and their kin exploded alongside. Evolutionary medicine reads many of these not as design flaws but as trade-offs: traits that helped ancestors now misfire amid abundance, sitting, and city life.
Early-life epigenetic tuning can soften or sharpen the misfit depending on the adult world a child meets, and such marks may echo across generations. Since these diseases can be prevented and managed but rarely cured, the author pushes prevention and city design that realign daily life with evolved biology.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Stefano Amatori |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |