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1. Introduction
2. Overview
3. Medicine should ask
4. Mismatched to modernity
5. Evolution takes time: lactose tolerance in adults
6. Birth control and cancer risk
7. Early-life events fail to predict late-life environments
8. Obesity and diabetes epidemics
9. Prevalence of diabetes
10. The effect of exposing childeren to parasites
11. How worm infections reduce allergy risk
12. Worm and allergy risk: some evidence
13. Evolutionary conflicts cause reproductive problems
14. Conflicts between mother and fetus
15. Parent-offspring conflict: based in kin selection
16. Parent-parent conflict and imprinting
17. Conflicts and imprinting
18. Conflicts among parental genes
19. Abortions, immune genes and mate choice
20. Recurrent abortions and immune genes
21. The relation was established in Hutterites
22. Effect of HLA sharing on time to 5 children
23. …and on completed family size
24. Evolutionary inferences
25. Medicine uses evolutionary technology
26. Phylogeny uses relationships to infer history
27. Phylogenetic logic: shared, derived characters
28. Phylogenetic logic: simple, maximally likely trees
29. Phylogenetic data: DNA sequences
30. Phylogenetic data: relationships imply history
31. Phylogenetics in forensic medicine
32. Phylogenetics in epidemiological detective work
33. Inferences from smallpox phylogeny
34. Serial passage: another evolutionary technology
35. Serial transfer experiments (1)
36. Serial transfer experiments (2)
37. In serial transfer on new hosts
38. Principles and mechanisms of microevolution
39. Tradeoffs (1)
40. Tradeoffs (2)
41. Tradeoffs (3)
42. Natural selection
43. Natural selection: 4 necessary, simple conditions
44. Extraordinary consequence: complex adaptation
45. Natural selection versus random drift
46. Selection and drift
47. Selection continues
48. What medicine can do with evolution (1)
49. What medicine can do with evolution (2)

Topics Covered

• How we are mismatched to modernity
• Birth control and cancer risk
• Impact of early-life events on late-life obesity and diabetes
• Hygiene and autoimmune disease
• Evolutionary conflicts that produce reproductive problems
• Evolutionary technologies used in medicine
• The evolutionary principles and mechanisms underpinning these examples

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Series:

• Evolution and Medicine

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Genetics & Epigenetics

Therapeutic Areas:

• Immunology & Inflammation

Talk Citation

Stearns, S.C. (2020, September 30). Evolution and medicine: from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bs/126/.
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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Reviewed on September 30, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Stephen C. Stearns has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.