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eCAM 2009 6(4):421-422; doi:10.1093/ecam/nep194
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© The Author(s) 2009. Published by Oxford University Press.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Editorial

eCAM: Darwin and Metchnikoff

Edwin L. Cooper

Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763, USA

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Darwin and Metchnikoff exerted prescient influences on biology and medicine. Is this seemingly an unlikely pair to be juxtaposed and mentioned in a journal devoted to evidence-based complementary medicine? I think not. I will try and persuade you from a few viewpoints why I accord them this place. First, it seems essential that all biologists, biomedical specialists and everyone, with a general cultural awareness, should at least recognize their names (surely Darwin!). Second, for the biologists, Darwin is even more familiar since this is his year, the 150th anniversary of the publication of On Origin of Species (disciplines embraced: genetics, evolution, ecology, ethology, anthropology and natural history). . . . [Full Text of this Article]

For reprints and all correspondence: Edwin L. Cooper, Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763, USA. Tel: +1 310 825 9567; Fax: +1 310 825 2224; E-mail: ecam@mednet.ucla.edu


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