Zachary Taylor Compton

The paper investigates whether sleep duration mediates the association between gestation duration and cancer prevalence across vertebrates, finding no significant correlations.

This paper argues for integrating phylogenetic comparative methods into evolutionary medicine, using comparative oncology to show how these methods can reveal evolutionary patterns in disease traits.

The paper analyzes immune-cancer tradeoffs across mammals, finding a negative correlation between cancer and trauma mortality, mediated by platelet size and trophic level.