Instructors: Matthew Dean and Dennis Hedgecock
Evolution is one of the pillars of modern biology. As the evolutionary biologist, Theodosius Dobzhansky, put it, in the title of a 1973 essay, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution.”
That includes human biology and medicine. Both disease-causing organisms and their victims evolve. Training in evolutionary thinking can help both biomedical researchers and clinicians ask useful questions about modern human health and disease that they might not otherwise pose.
BISC 313 celebrates the diversity of life on Earth, Darwin’s revolutionary explanation of this diversity as the result of common descent with modification by natural selection, and how evolutionary thinking in this era of genomic science has advanced our understanding of biology.
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