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Hour One
Darwinian Medicine
Can a fever be beneficial? Does morning sickness serve to protect a fetus? Why do we age and die? In this hour of Science Friday: a discussion about a new view of why we get sick. It's called "Darwinian Medicine" and applies evolutionary theory to help understand and treat disease.
Guests:
Randolph Nesse
Author, "Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine"
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI
Paul Ewald
Author, "Evolution of Infectious Disease"
Chairman, Department of Biology
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
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