ANTH 249
Evolution and Human Disease

Credit: 3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Life Sciences course.

(ANTH 149) Principles of modern evolutionary theory are applied to medical problems. Topics include: transmission, pathogen strategies, symptoms and spectrum of disease, evolution of virulence, concept of cause, antimicrobial resistance, emerging diseases, stress and adaptation, nutrition, diachronic overview of changing patterns of human disease and ecological factors. Credit is not given for both this course and ANTH 279.