ANTH 3460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Evolutionary Medicine, Reproductive Health, Wisdom Tooth
17 Oct 2016
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Much of disease and illness can be understood in this context. Ex: light skins take in more vitamin d and maximize vitamin d production, than others and are more likely to maximize their success towards reproduction dark enough to preserve foliate (readily degrades in the presence of uv radiation) Evolution all about reproductive success (cid:498)never in the field of human comprehension were so many facts been explained by assuming so few(cid:499) richard dawkins. Proximate explains how organisms work by describing: ex: sickle cell hemoglobin and how it develops. Biological causation: proximate and evolutionary year that are ** Selected principles of darwinian medicine: misconception because fails to account for the range of variation, ** set the ** on fire an individual: evolutionary questions interaction adapt. Humans created the situation which in turn made us. Mechanism what is the structure and. Ontogeny how does the trait develop in.
