The patient as person in an increasingly gene-centric universe: how healthcare professionals should think about genomics and evolution.

In the past, the primary threat to the patient as person was a medical utilitarianism that would sacrifice the individual for the collective, that would coercively (ab)use a person for the sake of an in-group's health or happiness. Today, the threat is not only from vainglorious social groups but also from valorized genes and genomes. An over-valuation of genes risks making persons seem epiphenomenal.

Diet quality differentially affects breeding effort of Mastomys coucha and M. natalensis: Implications for rodent pests.

In this study we compare the reproductive ability of Mastomys natalensis, an agricultural rodent pest and that of the closely related species M. coucha, which has not been ascribed as a pest. We suggest that the ability of M.