HUMBIO 2A: Genetics, Evolution and Ecology

Why are some people touched by disease and others aren’t? Is it nature or nurture? Something inherent in our genes at birth? A wrong turn along the way? An environmental exposure? Or some combination of a range of factors? Professor Paul Fisher, MD, chief of the Division of Child Neurology at the Stanford School of Medicine, investigates the causes of brain tumors and other childhood cancers. Here, he delivers the first lecture in the genetics, evolution and ecology side of the course core for undergraduates majoring in Human Biology -- a program he directs.