Dear\ Andrés M. Pérez-Acosta

pls read this article :-

• Article Darwin and Genetics

• https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/49/11/923/220192
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201212/the-evolutionary-biology-altruism

good luck

Thank you very much, Mohammed, for the paper. I will read it with a lot of interest.

Estimadísimo Andrés, como sabes, este campo no es mi dominio, pero encontré lo siguiente, que no estoy seguro de cuánta utilidad pueda tener o que incluso hasta los conozcas.:

Villalba, J. J., Miller, J., Ungar, E. D., Landau, S. Y., & Glendinning, J. (2014). Ruminant self-medication against gastrointestinal nematodes: evidence, mechanism, and origins. Parasite (Paris, France), 21, 31. https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2014032

Villalba, J. J., & Landau, S. Y. (2012). Host behavior, environment and ability to self-medicate. Small Ruminant Research, 103(1), 50–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smallrumres.2011.10.018

Huffman, M. A. (2001). Self-Medicative Behavior in the African Great Apes: An Evolutionary Perspective into the Origins of Human Traditional Medicine. BioScience, 51(8), 651. https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0651:SMBITA]2.0.CO;2

Querido Julio, estas referencias son de oro, muchísimas gracias. Estoy convencido de que hace falta un enorme ejercicio de integración entre aspectos innatos y aprendidos, para comprender el comportamiento de automedicación en la naturaleza (de humanos y animales, en conjunto). Gran abrazo, Andrés.

Gracias a Juan Alberto Castillo Martínez:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00521-2

Querido Andrés M. Pérez-Acosta ,

Michael R. Hutchings and Spiridoula Athanasiadou also publish about this topic, although in animals, which I find very interesting, there is one review I really like from the ''point of view of biology'' and where you can find at the reference list a lot of papers relating to self-medication.

Can animals use foraging behaviour to combat parasites?

Article Can animals use foraging behaviour to combat parasites?

Hope it helps,

Maria

Dear María,

¡Muchas gracias! This paper looks very useful to draft an answer to this complex question of the origins of self-medication behavior. I believe that animal self-medication is key to understand its evolution.

Recibe un saludo muy especial.