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Public Lecture: How can evolution help us to understand and prevent disease?

6pm Wednesday 11 February, 2009

Melbourne Convention Centre
(Corner of Spencer and Flinders Streets)
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Speaker: Professor Randolph Nesse
Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology
University of Michigan


Evolution explains why the body works so well.  The eye is the classic example, but one should equally appreciate heart valves that open and close 2,500,000,000 times without leaking.  But evolution also can help us to understand why the body is not better. Why did it leave us with wisdom teeth, narrow coronary arteries, and a narrow birth canal?  And why does the eye have a blind spot?  Why do we love the very foods that make us obese and send us to the grave early? The evolutionary answers to such questions offer hopes of making human life longer and healthier.


 

Randolph M. Nesse*, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program.

 

Admission: Free

 Randolph Nesse

Location Map

The Melbourne Convention Centre is located on the corner of Flinders and Spencer Streets. The Melbourne Convention Centre is a short walk from Southern Cross Station or you can take tram numbers 96, 109 or 112. Click here for a printable map.

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