BIOL 485. Evolutionary Medicine and Genomics. 3 Credits.
Evolution plays a key role in many areas of medicine, including vaccine design, antibiotic use, chemotherapy for cancer, drug discovery, and personalized medicine. This 3-credit lecture course explores the many ways that understanding human evolution, disease evolution, and cancer evolution gives us tools to be better health care workers and better patients.
Prereq: BIOL 150, BIOL 151 and BIOL 315 or PLSC 315.
Dual-listing: BIOL 685.
