Randolph M. Nesse, M.D.
- Foundation Professor of Life Sciences, and Founding Director (2014-2019), The Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University
- Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan
- Founding President: The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
This book does for psychiatry what Why We Get Sick did for medicine in general
It asks a new question, whose answers transform our understanding of disease
Lively prose makes it perfect for a book club
New ideas and authoritative sources make it a fine text for a class
Recent
Nesse, Stein: How evolutionary psychiatry can advance psychopharmacology, 2019
Nesse, Dawkins: Evolutionary Medicine chapter in Oxford Textbook of Medicine
Tinbergen's Four Questions, EMPH, 2018
The Smoke Detector Principle, EMPH, 2018
Core Concepts of Evolutionary Medicine, 2017
Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric research and practice, 2017
Nesse Anorexia: A Perverse Effect of Trying to Control the Starvation Response BBS 2017
Nesse, Finch, Nunn: Evolution, Sleep, & Alzheimer's Disease, 2017
Five Evolutionary Principles for Understanding Cancer, 2017
Thomas, Nesse, et al. Evolutionary Ecology of Organs, Trends in Cancer, 2016
Social selection is a powerful explanation for prosociality. BBS, 2016
Hauser, Nesse, Schwarz: Lay Theories of Health and Illness, 2016
Fried & Nesse: Depression sum scores don't add up. BMC Med 2015
Evolutionary psychology and mental health. 2015
Will computers ever evolve to be as wonderful as dogs?
How Stupid Not to Have Thought of That!
A general ''Theory of Emotion'' is neither necessary nor possible, Emotion Review, 2014
Fried & Nesse: Depression is more than the sum of its parts, Psy Med, 2013
Aktipis & Nesse: Evolutionary foundations for cancer biology, Evolutionary Applications, 2013.
Nesse, et al. Evolutionary Molecular Medicine, J Mol Medicine, 2012
Nesse & Stein: Towards a genuinely medical model for psychiatric nosology, BMC Medicine, 2012
Natural selection is simple, but the systems It shapes are unimaginably complex, EDGE, 2012
Evolution: A basic science for medicine, 2012
Nesse & Jackson: Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric diagnosis, 2011
Ten questions for evolutionary studies of disease vulnerability, Evol Apps, 2011
Nesse & Foxman: Evolution of sexually transmitted diseases, NYAS, 2011
Nesse & Dawkins: Evolutionary medicine chapter in Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2010
Evolutionary perspectives in health and medicine, PNAS, 2010
Highly Cited
What is Evolutionary Medicine?
How to Test an Evolutionary Hypothesis
Tinbergen's Four Questions, EMPH, 2018
The Smoke Detector Principle, EMPH, 2018
Core Concepts of Evolutionary Medicine, 2017
Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric research and practice, 2018
Evolutionary psychology and mental health. 2015
Ten questions for evolutionary studies of disease vulnerability, Evol Apps, 2011
Nesse & Foxman: Evolution of sexually transmitted diseases, NYAS, 2011
Nesse & Dawkins: Evolutionary medicine chapter in Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2010
Evolutionary perspectives in health and medicine, PNAS, 2010
Social selection and the origins of culture, 2010
Making evolution a basic science for medicine, PNAS, 2009
Time for truly biological psychiatry, Brit. J. Psychiatry, 2009
Explaining depression: Neuroscience is not enough, evolution is essential, 2009
Evolution, emotions and emotional disorders, American Psychologist, 2009
Evolution: Medicine's most basic science, Lancet, 2008
Runaway social selection for displays of partner value and altruism, Biological Theory, 2007