Evolutionary Medicine and Genomics.

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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 .