Grant Hengst

What I learned about our topic is that Alzheimers is a disease doctors are still working on to find more things about it. There is a huge search for the cure and since people are living longer now there is a higher percentage of elderly people getting Alzheimers. Also, I didn't know that there were high cholesterol drugs that were being looked at as a possible side effect of solving Alzheimers. I think a doctor should know about evolution because the knowledge of evolution furthers the understanding of the human body. If doctors would take an evolution course they could understand the concepts of mutation and genetic drift, which would help them greatly with understanding how some diseases start out as, for example Influenza (flu). Also, like Dr. Felzien said studying animal models and finding which animal was the best compared to humans would be a good evolution analysis to help doctors in curing diseases.