BIO 3155G: Evolutionary Medicine

What is your research topic? Here are some sample search terms. Try them when searching for magazine and news articles, using the recommended databases. Combine two to three terms to focus your search. Use "quotations marks" to search words as a phrase, as shown below, which limits your search to the most relevant results.
 

General terms

     - "evolutionary medicine"
     - "Darwinian medicine"
     - "evolution (biology)"
     - "natural selection"
     - "adaptation (biology)"
     - genes or genetics
     - genomes or genomics
     - humans
 

Diseases of civilization

     - Alzheimer's
     - cancer (or breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc.)
     - "coronary heart disease"
     - depression or "mental depression"
     - diabetes or "type 2 diabetes" or "non-insulin-dependent diabetes"
     - "high blood pressure" or hypertension
     - malaria (sickle cell allele)
     - obesity
     - osteoporosis
 

Additional topics

     - aging
     - "antibiotic resistance"
     - "genetic drift"
     - "molecular clock" or "molecular evolution"
     - "neutral mutations"
     - "pathogenic microorganisms"
     - "stem cells"