Evolutionary Medicine

This course covers the principles of evolutionary biology and human evolutionary history. It also addresses topics that document the importance of evolution in developing medical hypotheses including disease and host-pathogen coevolution, the evolutionary biology of cancer, and the mismatch hypothesis for human health. Prerequisites: BIOL 1506/E/F, BIOL 1700 or ANTR 2016E or permission of the instructor. (lec 3, sem 3) cr 3.