Yale Evolutionary Medicine Course by Steve Stearns free on ITunes

This course is a survey of evolutionary insights that make important differences in medical research and clinical practice, including evolutionary mechanisms and the medical issues they affect. Individual genetic variation in susceptibility; evolutionary conflicts and tradeoffs in reproductive medicine; the evolution of antibiotic resistance and virulence in pathogens; emerging diseases; the evolution of aging; cancer as an evolutionary process.

Prof. Stearns would like to acknowledge the support of both Yale and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) for this Course. NESCent (http://www.nescent.org) is a nonprofit science center dedicated to promoting the synthesis of information, concepts and knowledge to address significant, emerging, or novel questions in evolutionary science and its applications. NESCent is jointly operated by Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.