Evolution and Medicine (2015) with Stephen Stearns
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1 modules • 65 lessons • 11.5 hours of video
Evolution and Medicine (2015) with Stephen Stearns
65 lessons
• 11.5 hours
Evolution and Medicine (2015) with Stephen Stearns
65 lessons
• 11.5 hours
- 0.0 - Welcome to Evolution and Medicine 10:40
- 1.1 - Evolutionary Thinking: Natural Selection 13:36
- 1.2 - Evolutionary Thinking: Random Evolution, The Role of Chance 20:45
- 1.3 - Evolutionary Thinking: Mismatch, a Major Cause of Maladaptation 08:47
- 1.4 - Evolutionary Thinking: Adaptation: Why it is Problematic and How to Recognize it 13:22
- 1.5 - Evolutionary Thinking: Styles of thought: Typological, Population, and Tree Thinking 12:30
- 2.1 - What is a patient? Ancient History 12:50
- 2.2 - What is a patient? Recent History 14:08
- 2.3 - What is a patient? Variation in disease resistance 11:10
- 2.4 - What is a patient? Variation in disease resistance 15:48
- 2.5 - What is a patient? Life history 15:22
- 2.6 - What is a patient? Plasticity and reaction norms 12:22
- 2.7 - What is a patient? Tradeoffs 16:52
- 2.8 - What is a patient? Aging 16:33
- 2.9 - What is a patient? The unusual human life history 19:58
- 2.10 - What is a patient? Developmental origins of health and disease 10:02
- 2.11 - What is a patient? Development and the microbiota 14:49
- 2.12 - What is a patient? Recap 05:45
- 3.1 - What is a disease? Introduction 16:33
- 3.2 - What is a disease? Vulnerable to robust 09:55
- 3.3 - What is a disease? Fixed to adjustable 05:43
- 3.4 - What is a disease? History and mismatch 05:41
- 4.1 - Defenses: Origin in homeostasis 08:08
- 4.2 - Defenses: Types and costs 10:18
- 4.3 - Defenses: Specialized 1 10:11
- 4.4 - Defenses: Specialized 2 13:01
- 4.5 - Defenses: Diseases 07:19
- 4.6 - Defenses: Key characteristics 12:12
- 4.7 - Defenses: Strategies 1 08:17
- 4.8 - Defenses: Strategies 2 07:18
- 4.9 - Defenses: Innate immunity 07:16
- 4.10 - Defenses: Adaptive immunity 09:08
- 4.11 - Defenses: Clonal evolution 08:22
- 5.1 - Pathogen evolution: Virulence 1 09:39
- 5.2 - Pathogen evolution: Virulence 2 10:57
- 5.3 - Pathogen evolution: Managing the microbiota 14:43
- 5.4 - Pathogen evolution: Evading defenses 12:56
- 5.5 - Pathogen evolution: Resistance 13:06
- 5.6 - Pathogen evolution: Evolution-proof therapies 11:00
- 6.1 - Cancer: Introduction 08:36
- 6.2 - Cancer: Why we are susceptible 13:22
- 6.3 - Cancer: Clonal evolution 11:31
- 6.4 - Cancer: Phylogenetic insights 10:33
- 6.5 - Cancer: Evading the immune system 10:44
- 6.6 - Cancer: Adaptive chemotherapy 11:13
- 7.1 - Reproduction: The evolution of mammalian reproduction 17:10
- 7.2 - Reproduction: Invasive placentas and risk of metastatic cancer 14:49
- 7.3 - Reproduction: Parent-offspring conflict 10:21
- 7.4 - Reproduction: Menstruation 08:39
- 7.5 - Reproduction: Menopause 08:52
- 7.6 - Reproduction: Upright posture and childbirth 06:16
- 8.1 - Mismatch: Introduction 06:43
- 8.2 - Mismatch: Evidence from time and space 09:37
- 8.3 - Mismatch: Obesity 09:09
- 8.4 - Mismatch: Type 2 diabetes 05:29
- 8.5 - Mismatch: Heart disease and cancer 07:50
- 8.6 - Mismatch: Hygiene and Old Friends 11:21
- 9.1 - Mental disorders: Explanations 05:48
- 9.2 - Mental disorders: Drug addiction 06:42
- 9.3 - Mental disorders: Anxiety, depression, and OCD 05:33
- 9.4 - Mental disorders: Autism and schizophrenia 09:21
- 10.1 - Population consequences of individual decisions 07:51
- 10.2 - The Great Transition and its impacts on health, disease, and selection 11:06
- 11.1 - Open questions 05:15
- 11.2 - Classical and evolutionary medicine 02:58
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