On Designing Courses in Evolutionary Medicine

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 589-594

  Stearns, Stephen C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Course design; Course structure; Evolutionary medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861660033     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-011-0363-0     Document Type: Article

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