EEB 122 - Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
Lecture 21 - Evolutionary Medicine. Evolution plays an important though underutilized role in medicine. Evolution guides how our bodies respond to various treatments, how pathogens will respond to treatments, and how pathogens' responses will change over time. Pathogens oftentimes will evolve to an intermediate level of virulence where they become strong enough to infect a host and reproduce, but not so strong as to kill the host before it can spread the pathogen. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 21 - Evolutionary Medicine |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Introduction |
| [00:06:40] | 2. "Thrifty Phenotypes" |
| [00:11:36] | 3. Auto-immune Diseases in Developed and Undeveloped Countries |
| [00:17:27] | 4. Treating Auto-immune Diseases |
| [00:26:20] | 5. Pathogen Evolution |
| [00:37:40] | 6. Virulence |
| [00:47:16] | 7. Summary |
| References |
| Lecture 21 - Evolutionary Medicine Instructor: Stephen C. Stearns. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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