Winter Session: Jan 3-14, 2022
Have you wondered how viruses and bacteria evolve and infect new hosts? Or how some people can enjoy dairy and some others don’t? Or how are still wolves around if they were domesticated to become dogs?
This course will answer these and MORE questions!!
Emphasis on how evolutionary biology helps us to understand current issues in health, medicine, ecology, conservation biology, global climate change, and agriculture.
Topics include: the fossil record, biodiversity, mass extinctions, human evolution, infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance. (IRR)