Biology 1001A Study Guide - Final Guide: Autoimmune Disease, Selective Sweep, Appendicitis

• School: Western University
• Department: Biology
• Course: Biology 1001A
• Professor: Tom Haffie

Document Summary

Lecture outcomes: examples of relevance of evolutionary principles to human health: pathogens can evolve; we can manipulate their optimal virulence, traces of our evolutionary history affect our health, evolutionary constraints can result in health problems that humans are subject to, trade offs between competing demands, competing demands associated with degenerative disease, symptoms may be defenses, but not defects, may never be able to close the book" on infection diseases trends in incidence of infectious vs. autoimmune disorders with respect gdp. Metabollic syndrome: human body has only recently adopted its current environment, filled with former rarities such as high fat foods, evolutionary medicine take of obesity; this reflects a mismatch to the environment we"re evolutionary adapted to (sweet, fatty foods limited) and our current environment, historically we may have had slower metabolisms to account for limited availability to sweet and fatty foods.