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Course name
Evolutionary medicine
Institution
Washington State University
Instructor
Ed Hagen
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Evolutionary Medicine
Course dates
2025-01-08 00:00:00 UTC – 2025-04-30 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
6


Evolutionary medicine, also known as Darwinian medicine, is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary specialization utilizing insights from evolutionary theory and human evolutionary ecology to inform our understandings of human health, development and disease; and also to critique existing biomedical theory about the human condition. Topics include reproduction, child birth, lactation, growth and development, infectious diseases, parasites, diet and nutrition, mental and behavioral disorders, and substance use and addiction.