• Darwinian medicine
• defenses
• symptoms
• adaptation
• coevolution

• variation
• Thomas Malthus
• population principle (Malthus)
• Charles Darwin
• natural selection
• Gregor Mendel
• homozygous
• heterozygous
• allele
• dominant allele
• recessive allele
• evolution
• DNA
• gene
• amino acid
• protein
• chromosome
• mutation
• species

• pathogen
• Argument from Design
• natural theology
• extrinsic limiting factors
• balance of nature
• disturbance
• non-equilibrium theory
• competition
• competitive exclusion
• interspecific competition
• intraspecific competition
• niche
• fundamental niche
• realized niche

• hunter gatherer
• savanna
• arboreal
• cursorial
• crowd diseases
• density-dependent limiting factors
• density-independent limiting factors
• extrinsic limiting factors
  
• intrinsic limiting factors
• predator-prey cycles

• epidemic
• pandemic
• humors
• miasma
  
• germ theory of disease
• Girolamo Fracastoro
• Louis Pasteur
• Robert Koch
• Koch’s postulate
• Ignaz Semmelweis
• childbed fever

• evolutionary arms race
• coevolution
• Leigh Van Valen
  
• Red queen hypothesis
• magic bullet (Ehrlich)
• Ernest Duchesne
  
• Sir Alexander Fleming
• penicillin
• antibiotic
• resistance
• vaccination
• MDR – multiple drug resistance
• XDR - extensively drug resistant
  
• conjugation
• generation time
• plasmid
• toxic streptococcal syndrome
• flesh-eating bacteria
• rheumatic fever
• mutualism
  
• commensalism
• parasitism
  
• prophylactic prescriptions

• r selection
• K selection
• life history strategies
• fever
• Julius Wagner-Juaregg
• iron withholding
• conalbumin
• lactoferrin
• transferrin
• host defense
• host manipulation
• intermediate host
• Guinea worm
  
• African sleeping sickness
• rabies
• brainworm

• coexistence
• syphilis
• scarlet fever
• English sweats
• virulence
• benign strain
• direct transmission
• vector transmission
• Paul Ewald
• nosocomial infection
• “sit and wait” transmission
• durable (strain)

• Great Sickness
• white plague
• Toxoplasmosis
• Legionnaire's disease
• CDC Centers for Disease Control
• global climate change
• greenhouse effect
• West Nile fever

• nematodes
• interstitial habitat
• Ascaris
• Trichinella
• germ of laziness
• Charles Wardell Stiles
• Necator americanus
• hookworm
• RSC - Rockefeller Sanitary Commission

• 1918 flu epidemic
• Spanish flu
• RNA virus
• H spikes, N spikes
• epitopes
• antigen drift
• antigen shift
• hybridization (flu virus)
• pneumonia
  
• Kirsty Duncan
• Jeffrey Taubenberger
• Johan Hultin
• zoonoses
• Hong Kong flu
• swine flu

• biological warfare
• Lord Jeffrey Amherst
• Geneva Protocol of 1925
• Ishii Shiro
• Unit 731
• anthrax
• Dugway Proving Grounds
• Bacterial Weapons Convention of  1972
• Kanatjan Alibekov
• Biopreparat
• botulinum
• bioweapon
• bioterrorism
• Aum Shinrikyo
• Order of the Rising Sun
• Rajneesh cult
• smallpox

• preadaptation
• pelvic/pectoral fins
• swim bladder
• diffusion
• epiglottis
• nostrils
• caecum
• appendix
• vestigial organ
• scurvy
• vitamins
• Vitamic C (ascorbic acid)
• bipedal posture
• femur
• lumbar region
• LBP (lower back pain)
• inverted retina
• convergent evolution
• optic nerve
• blind spot
• detached retina

• diseases of civilization (!)
• dental caries
• lactose
• lactase
• lactose-tolerant
• lactose-intolerant
• lactose malabsorbers
• UV radiation
• melanin
• Vitamin D
• rickets
• dietary fat
• obesity

• senescence
• free radicals
• telomeres
• endosymbiosis
• suicide gene
• aptosis
• lipofuscin
• progeria(s)
• Dobzhansky's limit

• cancer
• tumor
• metastases
• contact inhibition
• carcinoma
• sarcoma
• leukemia
• lymphoma
• carcinogen
• mutagen
• UV radiation (ultraviolet)
• ozone layer
• Francis Peyton Rous
• Rous avian sarcoma virus
• proto-oncogenes
• oncogenes
• ras gene
• epidermal growth factor (EGF)
• tumor suppressant genes
• p53 gene (Guardian Angel)

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