Emergency Physician, Educator, Researcher, interested in the microbiome, evolution, and medicine
First Week: Evolution and the Origin of Disease. Nesse, RM. Scientific American November 1998: 86-93. Optional reading for first week: 2. The Great Opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health. Nesse, RM and Stearns SC. Evolutionary Applications 1 (2008) 28-48. Second Week: 3. Two Lessons from the Interface of […]
Welcome UNM students! Please read both articles that are linked to the First Session post. These will help you participate in the discussion on thursday and understand the lecture on tuesday next week. During the course, we will visit and re-visit certain themes important to the topic of evolutionary medicine. I […]
Introduction to Evolutionary Medicine. This First Session will be devoted to an overview of evolutionary medicine. Pictured above is Staphylococcus Aureus that has evolved resistance to methicillin aka “MRSA”. A version from last year’s first lecture is here for preview: introductory-lecture Click here to get the second lecture slides:sickle-cell-handout The […]
The 2009 evolutionary medicine course at the University of New Mexico is shaping up to be the best yet. This course is for undergraduate and graduate students in biology and anthropology and is also open to medical students. The course is now scheduled for tuesday and thursday from 4:00pm to […]
As promised, I am posting final presentations in the Evolutionary Medicine Course. This is Melissa Franklin’s work on tradeoffs, sex steroids, resource allocation, and immune defense.reproductive tradeoff
This article from The Economist has a reference to work on sperm quality, overall health, and intelligence! Article link
Good Job Final Project Presenters! Thus far, the topics that have been presented have been terrific. I want to encourage all the students to keep up the good work. Good presentations so far include the following elements: 1) A description of a disease or a condition that affects human health. […]
On monday, we will discuss the following hypotheses of aging: Antagonistic Pleiotropy is the concept that a gene for survival or a gene that promotes reproduction early can be selected for even if it kills you at a later age. So selection favors juvenile survival at the expense of old age survival. […]
The lecture will be an overview of some evolutionary considerations of food. These include the concept of the paleolithic diet, which proposes that humans are healthiest when eating what our stone age ancestors ate. We will explore a variety of concepts through the lens of a Thanksgiving meal. The following […]
We are going to focus on diet next week. We have already talked about trans fats, and I think we have said enough about it already. Diet, as you know, is a huge topic, with far more information that we can cover in one week. But we will talk about […]
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