In his book, Doctors by Nature, the speaker demonstrates how animals of all kinds – from ants to apes, from bees to bears, and from cats to caterpillars – use various forms of medicine to treat their own ailments and those of their relatives. This lecture considers whether these astonishing behaviours are learned or innate and explains how we can turn to the medical knowledge of the animal kingdom to improve agriculture, create better lives for our pets, and develop new pharmaceutical drugs.
This lecture is presented in association with Princeton University Press.
Biography: Professor Jaap de Roode, Emory University
Jaap de Roode is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Biology at Emory University, where he is director of the Infectious Diseases across Scales Training Program, which trains graduate students in interdisciplinary science to study and control infectious disease. He is interested in the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, and currently studies infectious diseases of monarch butterflies, honey bees and humans.
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