Evolution and Medicine (2015, Open Yale Courses): Lecture 02

Evolution and Medicine

Evolution and Medicine (2015, Open Yale Courses). Instructor: Professor Stephen Stearns. This course is a survey of evolutionary insights that make important differences in medical research and clinical practice, including evolutionary mechanisms and the medical issues they affect. Individual genetic variation in susceptibility; evolutionary conflicts and tradeoffs in reproductive medicine; the evolution of antibiotic resistance and virulence in pathogens; emerging diseases; the evolution of aging; cancer as an evolutionary process.

Lecture 2.1 - Ancient History with Medical Consequences

Lecture 2.2 - Recent History with Medical Consequences

Lecture 2.3 - Genetic Variation for Disease Resistance

Lecture 2.4 - Genetic Variation for Ability to Metabolize Drugs

Lecture 2.5 - The Human Life History and its Evolution

Lecture 2.6 - A Patient is a Point on a Reaction Norm

Lecture 2.7 - Patients are Bundles of Tradeoffs

Lecture 2.8 - A Patient is Someone who Ages

Lecture 2.9 - Patients Have an Unusual Life History

Lecture 2.10 - The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Lecture 2.11 - The Developmental Origins of the Microbiota

Lecture 2.12 - Recap