Evolutionary medicine

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RuG)

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Stephen C. Stearns, Ruslan Medzhitov

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Evolutionary Medicine (RUG) Complete Summary
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February 2026

2023/2024
Complete and clearly structured summary of the course Evolutionary Medicine (RUG). This document explains how evolutionary principles help to understand why humans are vulnerable to disease, covering concepts such as natural selection, adaptation, evolutionary trade-offs, and evolutionary mismatch. It also discusses key applications to health and disease, including pathogen evolution and antibiotic resistance, immune function and inflammation, the microbiome, cancer as an evolutionary process, a...
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Summary Evolutionary Medicine
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2020/2021
This summary covers: - A review of evolutionary genetics and dynamics - The co-evolution of parasites and hosts - Evolution of the immune system - Evolution and origin of human infectious diseases - Evolution of virulence – why are some infectious diseases fatal and others so mild that they are barely noticed? - Evolution of sexually transmitted diseases - The evolution of antibacterial and antimicrobial resistance - Microbiota and human health - Evolutionary processes operating in du...
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