Understanding Evolution
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Description: Teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology, from the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education.
Our in-depth course on the science of evolution. The ultimate resource for teachers. A browsable archive of articles, tutorials, interactive investigations and more. The modern diabetes epidemic is caused, not by a virulent pathogen, but by the spread of an even stealthier invader: the Western lifestyle. As people around the world have begun to eat less healthily, lead more sedentary lives, and live to older ages, adult onset diabetes (type 2 diabetes) has become common in places where the disease was previously unknown. Between 1985 and 2002, the number of people with diabetes grew from 30 million to 217 million, and this figure is expected to exceed 366 million by 2030. But the epidemic has not been even-handed. Even accounting for differences in lifestyle, some populations have been hit particularly hard. Mexicans and Latin Americans, for example, have nearly twice the chance of developing diabetes that non-Hispanic white Americans do. New research addresses these disparities. Last month, scientists announced that they'd discovered a gene that helps explain the difference in diabetes risk among many populations. In a strange twist, the gene version in question traces its ancestry back to Neanderthals! What exactly is going on here?
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| Date | activated: 24-Apr-1985 last updated: 28-May-2013 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |