• 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. Evolutionary perspectives of human nutrition
3. Diversity of modern human nutritional strategies
4. The evolution of Homo erectus
5. Key features of human nutritional needs
6. Talk overview
7. Metabolic rates of selected tissues
8. RMR vs. body mass in humans vs. mammals
9. Brain weight vs. RMR
10. Brain metabolism and resting metabolism
11. Dietary and energetic correlates of size
12. Diet quality vs. body weight in primates
13. Relative brain size vs. diet quality
14. Intestines proportions in humans and apes
15. Day range variation - humans and other primates
16. Home range vs. body weight in primates
17. Correlates of home range size in modern species
18. Predictors of home range size
19. H. erectus - a major adaptive shift
20. Rapid brain evolution with emergence of Homo
21. Hominid body weight estimates: mid-sex averages
22. Changes in body proportions
23. Dietary and energetic implications
24. Ecosystem structure
25. Changes occurred with H. erectus
26. Rapid initial spread of H. erectus from Africa
27. Adaptive shifts in H. erectus
28. Ecological variation in nutritional strategies
29. Recent strategies for promoting diet quality
30. Human diversity of diets
31. BMI variation in different populations
32. Prevalence of obesity in US adults: 1960 to 2008
33. Changes in daily energy intake US adults
34. Lifestyle and energy expenditure among Siberians
35. Lifestyle correlates in the Yakut
36. Lifestyle and dietary change among Siberians
37. Changes in body fatness : Siberian Yakut
38. Modern vs. traditional populations
39. Energy expenditure in different populations
40. Daily activity levels in different populations
41. Shift from industrial to subsistence PALs
42. Consequences of additional physical activity
43. Physical activity in subsistence populations
44. Modern life: a “shifting” energy balance
45. Implications for understanding obesity
46. Conclusions: evolutionary insights
47. Acknowledgments

Topics Covered

• Relevance of Evolutionary Perspective for the Study of Nutrition
• Evolution of key human differences with the emergence & early evolution of Homo at ~2.0 mya
• Dietary regimes in traditional human societies
• Human Activity Patterns in Comparative Perspective
• Conclusions

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Series:

• Evolution and Medicine

Categories:

• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on March 31, 2011
• Reviewed on August 16, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. William R. Leonard has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.