HSCI 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ontogeny, Panic Disorder, Rheumatic Fever
10 Sep 2017
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Overhead: if our brain was perfect why do we have ____ 2 answers: traditional health sciences and biology, proximate answers, mechanism, ex: mechanism to depression, ecology and evolution, ultimate answers, origin and function. This course will focus on ultimate answers offered by the field of. Em incorporates the theoretical frameworks of ecology and evolution to the study of. Em"s formalization could be traced to williams & nesse"s 1991 article: the dawn of health and disease. Study of humans as a mammalian species that attempt to achieve its basic biological goals while it interact with out ecological context. Have the power to affect our ecological context. Because differences in survival and reproduction lead to evolution. Evolution is a process and occurs in several different ways. Evolution is the change in genetic makeup of a population between cohorts. Can understanding ns help us in any way to improve health outcomes. Some of that variation is linked to differences in survival and reproduction.
