This seminar will acquaint students with the exciting nascent field of Darwinian Medicine, a new approach to health and disease.  Darwinian Medicine and Traditional Medicine are complementary, not alternatives: the former addresses ultimate (evolutionary) questions about bodily functions and the latter addresses proximate (mechanistic) questions about the same phenomena.  This seminar will involve readings from the primary literature and discussions, highlighting such topics as genes in medicine, infectious diseases, fetal programming, immune system functioning, allergies, cancer, lactose malabsorption, morning sickness, senescence, cancer, menopause, and mental health.  Students are required to write one paragraph weekly summarizing results and questions arising from the readings, and to co-lead at least one discussion.