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About Evolutionary Medicine
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for AN55: Evolutionary Medicine, taught by Professor Carolyn Hodges-Simeon.
CARTA Symposium: Impact of Infectious Disease on Humans & Our Origins
- CARTA Symposium: Impact of Infectious Disease on Humans & Our Origins As the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates, infectious diseases can have profound influences on their host populations. Human evolution has unquestionably been shaped by past infections. However, humans have also shaped pathogen dynamics and virulence via a multitude of factors.
Featured Podcasts
- EvolutionMedicine Joe Alcock and guests talk about evolution, adaptation, medical care, epidemics, emerging diseases, and the microbiome.
- All in the Mind: Doctoring with Darwinian Medicine Look in your doctor's kitbag, and you'll probably find a stethoscope, a thermometer, a first-aid kit. But a copy of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species too? 'Darwinian Medicine' asks: why do we get sick, and why didn't the body evolve to be better? Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse argues physicians ignore evolutionary theories at the peril of their patients. All in the Mind continues Radio National's celebrations of Darwin's 200th birthday.
- The Evolving Body: With Professor Randolph Nesse Evolutionary physician Professor Randolph Nesse explores the idea of ‘Darwin’s eye’, and discusses what evolution means for our bodies, our emotions and our behaviour – as well as the disturbing implications of this view of the world.
- Ask a Biologist: Why We Get Sick What can evolution teach us about getting sick and how do we make use of what we are learning? Dr. Biology gets over a cold while visiting with Randy Nesse, Founding Director of the ASU Center for Evolution & Medicine. The two talk about why we get sick and some of the amazing things our body can do to repair itself. All of this is part of the study and practice of evolutionary medicine.
- Sapiens: A Startling Link Between Neanderthals and COVID-19 Researchers recently announced a discovery that connects Neanderthal DNA and people who experience severe symptoms from COVID-19. Hugo Zeberg, one of the scientists who led the study, speaks with SAPIENS host Chip Colwell.
