• Fundamentals of Evolution and Medicine
• 50 min
  1. Evolutionary medicine

  • Prof. Randolph Nesse
• 38 min
  2. Evolution and medicine: from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist

  • Prof. Stephen C. Stearns
• 31 min
  3. Developmental plasticity, evolution and the origins of disease

  • Dr. Mary Jane West-Eberhard
• Evolutionary Genetics
• 47 min
  4. Genetic variation and human disease

  • Dr. David Houle
• 65 min
  5. Evolutionary genetics: the detection of natural selection using molecular data

  • Dr. Mark Thomas
• 46 min
  6. Ecogenetics, evolutionary biology and human disease

  • Prof. Gilbert Omenn
• 24 min
  7. Race in genetics and medicine

  • Prof. Jeffrey Long
• 46 min
  8. Health disparities in common complex diseases: a role for genetics?

  • Dr. Kathleen Barnes
• Infectious Disease
• 44 min
  9. Bacteria and virus evolution: a model for the study of natural selection

  • Prof. Paul Turner
• 39 min
  10. Evolutionary arms races

  • Prof. Mark Pagel
• 43 min
  11. Antibiotic resistance and hospital-acquired infection

  • Dr. Carl Bergstrom
• 36 min
  12. Evolution of drug resistance

  • Dr. Pleuni Pennings
• 34 min
  13. Evolution of virulence: malaria, a case study

  • Prof. Andrew Read
• 38 min
  14. Infection and chronic disease

  • Prof. Paul Ewald
• Defenses
• 36 min
  15. Fever and related defenses

  • Prof. Matthew Kluger
• 45 min
  16. The evolutionary ecology of immunity

  • Prof. Paul Schmid-Hempel
• Novel Environmental Factors
• 39 min
  17. What did humans evolve to eat? evolutionary perspectives on human nutritional health

  • Prof. William R. Leonard
• 45 min
  18. The original human diet: what was it and should it be a model for contemporary nutrition?

  • Prof. S. Boyd Eaton
• 42 min
  19. The paleolithic lifestyle and prevention of chronic disease

  • Prof. S. Boyd Eaton
• 49 min
  20. Early nutrition, development and health: evolutionary perspectives on the metabolic syndrome

  • Dr. Christopher Kuzawa
• 31 min
  21. Evolution, human-microbe interactions and the "epidemic" of inflammation-related disorders (alias: the hygiene hypothesis)

  • Prof. Graham Rook
• 31 min
  22. Diseases of civilization: an evolutionary legacy

  • Prof. Alan Weder
• Problems Arising From Constraints and Trade-Offs
• 51 min
  23. Aging and evolutionary medicine

  • Prof. Linda Partridge
• 45 min
  24. Human aging and menopause

  • Prof. Kristen Hawkes
• 32 min
  25. Why we cook with spices: preventative darwinian medicine

  • Prof. Paul Sherman
• Sex and Reproduction
• 32 min
  26. Setting the second stage: the evolution of menopause & post-reproductive life

  • Prof. Lynnette Sievert
• 44 min
  27. Evolutionary obstetrics

  • Prof. Wenda Trevathan
• 41 min
  28. Sex differences in mortality

  • Dr. Daniel Kruger
• 46 min
  29. The endocrinology of human life history transitions

  • Prof. Peter Ellison
• 43 min
  30. Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy

  • Prof. David Haig
• 57 min
  31. Environmental effects on human reproduction

  • Prof. Gillian Bentley
• Cancer
• 54 min
  32. A darwinian eye view of cancer

  • Prof. Mel Greaves
• 56 min
  33. Viruses and cancer

  • Prof. Robin Weiss
• 38 min
  34. Connecting aging and cancer through the lens of evolution

  • Prof. James DeGregori
• 44 min
  35. Evolutionary dynamics in cancer control and cure

  • Dr. Bob Gatenby
• Specific Body Systems
• 44 min
  36. Hard tissue biology in human health and evolution: enamel biology

  • Prof. Timothy Bromage
• 19 min
  37. Hard tissue biology in human health and evolution: bone biology

  • Prof. Timothy Bromage
• 46 min
  38. Hard tissue biology in human health and evolution: craniofacial biology

  • Prof. Timothy Bromage
• 26 min
  39. Hard tissue biology in human health and evolution: life history and chronobiology

  • Prof. Timothy Bromage
• 53 min
  40. Lung biology and lung disease

  • Prof. John S. Torday
• 30 min
  41. The evolutionary web of life

  • Prof. John S. Torday
• 32 min
  42. Evolutionary considerations and the endothelium

  • Dr. William Aird
• Mental Disorders
• 38 min
  43. Evolutionary psychiatry

  • Prof. Randolph Nesse
• 48 min
  44. Evolutionary behavioural genetics and mental disorders

  • Dr. Matthew Keller
• Questions and Answers
• 57 min
  45. Audience questions about evolution and medicine

  • Prof. Randolph Nesse
• Paediatrics
• 41 min
  46. Evolutionary pediatrics

  • Dr. Paul Turke
• Microbiome
• 49 min
  47. Evolution, the microbiome, and human health

  • Dr. Joe Alcock
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 42 min
  48. The hygiene hypothesis

  • Prof. Graham Rook
• 26 min
  49. Mapping motivations: evolutionary health promotion

  • Dr. Valerie Curtis
  • Dr. Robert Aunger
• 16 min
  50. Evolutionary biology of depression

  • Prof. Lewis Wolpert
• 52 min
  51. Evolutionary genetic epidemiology

  • Prof. Nicholas Schork
• 65 min
  52. Mental disorders in the light of evolutionary biology

  • Prof. Randolph Nesse
• 59 min
  53. Evolution: medicine's missing basic science

  • Prof. Randolph Nesse
• 47 min
  54. Environmental effects on human reproduction

  • Prof. Gillian Bentley

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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

Links

Series:

• Evolution and Medicine

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Genetics & Epigenetics

Therapeutic Areas:

• Immunology & Inflammation

Talk Citation

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.