BIOL50313

Prerequisites: BIOL 30603 and 40123 with a C or better in each or permission of instructor. This course introduces the theory of evolution and its real-world applications to the practice of medicine. Concepts of survival and reproduction defining evolutionary fitness, co-evolution, competition, natural selection, bottleneck effects, adaptation and exaptation will be introduced and applied in the context of managing and treating infectious and non-infectious human and animal diseases. These concepts will be applied beyond individual-level medicine to population-level public health.