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Evolutionary Medicine - Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior

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This lecture examines how evolution shapes autoimmune disease, treatment responses, pathogen evolution, and virulence, with examples from developed and developing countries.

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- Chapter 1. Introduction
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- Chapter 2. "Thrifty Phenotypes"
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- Chapter 3. Auto-immune Diseases in Developed and Undeveloped Countries
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- Chapter 4. Treating Auto-immune Diseases
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- Chapter 5. Pathogen Evolution
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- Chapter 6. Virulence
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- Chapter 7. Summary
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