In our constantly changing world, what helps one generation can harm the next. This class explores the ways that genetic disease can result from adaptation to different environmental stresses.

In our constantly changing world, what helps one generation can harm the next. This class looks at the tradeoffs between genetic disease and environmental challenges.

As strange as it seems, certain diseases began as an evolutionary benefit. Find the link between common disorders and survival.

The human body is the result of millennia of evolution. Along the way our species has developed many traits and characteristics. Some are helpful while others are harmful. However, there are those that lie somewhere in between. This class will explore ways that diseases like Type 1 Diabetes and Sickle-Cell Anemia provide an evolutionary advantage in addition to their negative effects.