Readings for the first three weeks

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 Genetics and Medicine. Allison A. Genetics 166: 1591–1599 (April 2004) (Read page 1-5)

Third Week:

Re-Read Evolution and the Origin of Disease by Nesse from the first week.

Also read:Collins 2007. Stroke Rainforests and Evolution. Nursing Forum Vol 42 (1) Jan-Mar.

Categories of Evo Med Hypotheses

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 have divided most evolutionary medicine concepts into 10 categories. You can find these on the page located on the header above.