Closing Date: 30 November 2011 The Anthropology Department, Durham University, seeks to appoint a permanent, full-time lecturer (equivalent to tenure-track Assistant Professor) in Medical/Biological Anthropology to contribute to health-related teaching and research at...
Videos of most of the lectures at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratories 2011 course on Evolution and Medicine are now available at the NESCent channel on YouTube. They offer a valuable resource for courses that cover evolution and medicine....
By Cotter MM, Loomis DA, Simpson SW, Latimer B, Hernandez CJ, PLoS ONE 6(10): e26658. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026658 Abstract The field of evolutionary medicine examines the possibility that some diseases are the result of trade-offs made in human evolution. Spinal...
A brief overview of the development of an Evolution course for medical students at the Universidad de Chile By Angel E. Spotorno O., PhD Programa de Genética Humana, ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE In the last nine years, about 200 premedical students...
A Symposium, Nobel Meets Darwin at Alfred Nobel’s home in Sweden was organized and chaired by two leading researchers on sexually transmitted diseases, Dan Danielsson MD, PhD, from Emory University, and André J Nahmias, MD, MA, MPH, from Örebro University in...