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Chapter 13: Darwinian Medicine Destinations

Explore key concepts and research through these links to additional web resources.

13.1 Evolving Pathogens: Evasion of the Host's Immune Response

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  This is a great starting point for finding Web-based information about infectious disease.
  Keywords: CDC, disease, immune response

13.2 Evolving Pathogens: Antibiotic Resistance

• CDC Antimicrobial Resistance
  This is a comprehensive site with links to fact sheets, technical reports, published data and scientific studies.
  Keywords: CDC, antimicrobial resistance, research

• Factors Leading to Acquired Antibiotic Resistance
  This technical paper addresses a variety of causes for the rise in antibiotic resistance in developing countries.
  Keywords: antibiotic resistance, pathogens, evolution

13.3 Evolving Pathogen: Virulence

• National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)
  This site has a more general overview of comprehensive data.
  Keywords: infectious diseases, virulence, NCID

• Virulence in Mircroparasites
  In this article from the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Dr. Barry Levin of Emory University critically reviews and evaluates alternative hypotheses for the evolution of virulence and suggests ways to test them experimentally.
  Keywords: microparasites, virulence, pathogens

13.4 The Adaptationist Program Applied to Humans

13.5 Adaptation and Medical Physiology: Fever

• Fever Reduction
  This article from Scientific American reviews the potential purpose of fever in malaria.
  Keywords: fever, adaptation, malaria

13.6 Adaptation and Human Behavior: Parenting

• Evolutionary Psychology
  For good introductions to evolutionary psychology, visit Center for Evolutionary Psychology, the Web site developed by Drs. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They offer an excellent technical (but accessible) overview.
  Keywords: behavior, psychology, evolution