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Reproductive Effort Tradeoffs and Health

December 17, 2008

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

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Constraint of the female pelvis and bipedalism, mosquito bites...why the itch?, Hormone replacement therapy and heart disease, treating ear infections without antibiotics, wisdom teeth function in non-western societies, medicine-taking in primates, cholesterol hypothesis, infant diarrhea and hypertension, developmental constraints and hernias, gestational diabetes and paternal genes, lactose intolerance and pastoralism, pre-eclampsia and condoms, cancer vaccines, nearsightedness and glasses, sports and gene-environment mismatch, extreme environments and disease, mismatch and mimicry, allergy and parasites, morning sickness function, persistence and disappearance of emerging diseases, manipulation of pathogen virulence, genes for aging, antagonistic pleiotropy, declining power of selection, hypertension and salt conservation, utility of mild depression, panic and the smoke detector principle, artificial light and cancer, retinal detachments and the blind spot.

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