Phylogeny Lab

Research Goals

Focusing on the natural world as a source of insights for human health to:

Identify the evolutionary origins of vulnerability to disease
Identify natural animal models of disease resistance and vulnerability and
Uncover and characterize taxa-wide trends and patterns of relevance to human and animal health and development.

“Between human and animal medicine there is no dividing line…”

Rudolph Virchow (1821 – 1902)

“To get light on the behavior of man, particularly his innate drives and conflicts…study the behavior in a simple animal.”

Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988)

Selected Publications

Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara. “Tinbergean Approach to Clinical Medicine” in Integrating Evolution into Medical Education: An Evolving Perspective. Eds. Schulkin, Jay and Michael Powers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, In Progress.

Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara, and Daniel T. Blumstein. “Integrating Evolutionary Thinking into Medical Education and Curricula” in Darwin’s Roadmap to the Curriculum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, In Press.

Devinsky, O., Boesch, J.M., Cerda-Gonzalez, S., Coffey, B., Davis, K., Friedman, D., Hainline, B., Houpt, K., Lieberman, D., Perry, P., Pruss, H., Samuels, M.A., Small, G.A., Volk, H., Summerfield, A., Vite, C., Wisniewski, T., Natterson-Horowitz, B. A cross-species approach to disorders affecting brain and behaviour. Nature Reviews Neurology. 2018. 14:677-686.

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Rabinowitz, P., B. Natterson-Horowitz, L. Kahn, R. Kock, M. Pappaioanou. Incorporating One Health into Medical Education. BMC Medical Education. 2017. 17(1):45.

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Rabinowitz PM, Kock R, Kachani M, Kunkel R, Thomas J, Gilbert J, et al. Toward proof of concept of a One Health approach to disease prediction and control. Emerg Infect Dis 2013 Dec.

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Research Goals

Rudolph Virchow (1821 – 1902)

Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988)

Selected Publications

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D.

Susan Kwan, M.P.H.