Abstract
Medical, ethical and personal dimensions of parent-offspring conflicts
Highlights
The profound implications of Haig’s insights into the roles of evolutionary conflicts in fetal, infant and maternal health are matched only by the remarkable absence of understanding, appreciation or application of such evolutionary principles among the research and clinical medical communities, or the general public
My goal is to determine how the applied dimensions of parent–offspring conflict theory can be made more useful to increasing human health and well-being
The general lack of permeation of such perspectives into the minds of doctors and medical researchers, over 20-plus years of opportunity, suggests that such syntheses of proximate with ultimate approaches will only happen by evolutionary biologists themselves establishing research links in medical communities, and by targeted teaching of medical-evolutionary thinking especially at the undergraduate and early-graduate levels
Summary
The profound implications of Haig’s insights into the roles of evolutionary conflicts in fetal, infant and maternal health are matched only by the remarkable absence of understanding, appreciation or application of such evolutionary principles among the research and clinical medical communities, or the general public. I explore this gap, and the relevance and practical applications of parent–offspring conflict for medicine, public health, ethical decision making and personal experience.
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