Interestingly, proposals for curriculum reform tend not to emphasize ways to include more and more specific content. Instead, a review of 24 proposals for medical curriculum reform found that they consistently focused on values, especially the social nature and self-regulation of the medical profession (Christakis 1995). Somehow, from all of these jostling interest groups, priorities and multiple regulations and examination requirements, a Dean and faculty must come up with a curriculum. This makes it difficult to warmly welcome visitors who drop by to point out that a whole huge area of basic science has been omitted from the curriculum. However, evolu- tionary biology is not just another narrow topic, but a fundamental basic.
