HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN POPULATIONS

ZOOLOGY 415

Covers a range of topics related to human genetics and evolution. Explores questions about what genetic differences between humans tell us about our species' evolutionary and demographic history, and conversely, how our history has shaped the genetic diversity of people living today. At a time of rapidly increasing ability to sequence huge numbers of genomes such questions play a central role in understanding how genetics impacts individuals' disease risks, how to interpret reported ancestry and family history from direct-to-consumer genotyping kits, and how genetics can (or importantly, cannot) inform descriptions of human diversity and concepts of race. Includes topics of diversity and inclusion in genomics studies, with a focus on the application and limits of results obtained from one group to our understanding of other groups.

ANTHRO 365

The ecology of health and disease in human cultures; health-related social systems and behavior cross-culturally; practical implications of medical anthropology for improving the health of specific populations.

ANTHRO 105

Genetic basis of morphological, physiological and behavioral variations within and between human populations, and their origins and evolution.

GENETICS 633

Preparation for initiating research in the population genetics field. Explore how genetic variation is influenced by mutation and recombination, population size changes and migration, and natural selection for or against new mutations.

ANTHRO 265

Uses the conceptual tools of anthropology to explore how culture, biology, and power together shape the ways people are born, experience good and poor health, seek therapeutic aid, and die. Draws on material from around the world, with a particular focus on the experience of marginalized minority people in the United States.