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Joe Alcock
Emergency Physician, Educator, Researcher, interested in the microbiome, evolution, and medicine
Thanks to all who participated in the inaugural Evolutionary Medicine course at UNM! Especially thanks to everybody who participated in the discussion. Some novel and very interesting hypotheses were presented. Since we did not discuss Sickle cell anemia, I am going to suggest some other writing topics. You are still […]
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Introduction to Evolutionary Medicine. This First Session will be devoted to an overview of evolutionary medicine and a discussion of sickle cell anemia. Pictured above is a pregnant woman with sickle cell disease. Click here to get the first lecture slides:introductory-lecture Click here to get the second lecture slides:sickle-cell-handout Click […]
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Students of UNM Biol. 402-027 and Biol. 502-027 may visit this blog for updates, evolutionary medicine links, references, readings and useful information about the course!
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