Randolph M. Nesse, M.D.
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
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- This book will surely change the face of medicine -- and deservedly so. —Robin Dunbar
- This is a wise, accessible, highly readable exploration of an issue that goes to the heart of human existence. —Robert Sapolsky
- A bold book that would have made Darwin proud. Cutting-edge and compassionate at the same time —Lee Dugatkin
- It is no exaggeration to say that he opens the door to a new paradigm in thinking about human beings and their conflicted lives. —Michael Ruse
- A provocative book full of intriguing explanations about human nature in all its strengths and weaknesses. —Carl Zimmer
- Someday nearly all psychiatry will be identified as evolutionary psychiatry. If so, Randolph Nesse’s book should be seen as the field’s founding document. — David Barash in The Wall Street Journal
Recent
Recent
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- Podcast on the Jordan Harbinger show.
- Nesse: Tacit Creationism in Emotions Research, 2020 Video.
- Simplify Podcast about why painful emotions persist, 2019
- Video of a Nov 2019 talk on why disease genes persist
- Nesse & Schulkin: An evolutionary medicine perspective on pain and its disorders. PhilTransRS B, 2019
- Nesse: Core Principles for Evolutionary Medicine, 2019
- Nesse & Natterson-Horowitz: Evolutionary Medicine, a great way to teach biology, 2019
- Nesse, Stein: How evolutionary psychiatry can advance psychopharmacology, 2019
- Nesse, Dawkins: Evolutionary Medicine chapter in Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2019
- Tinbergen's Four Questions, EMPH, 2019
- The Smoke Detector Principle, EMPH, 2019
- Grunspan, et al., 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
- Evolution and Stress, 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
- Antolin, et al. Evolution and medicine in undergraduate education: A prescription for all biology students, Evolution, 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
- Why has natural selection left us so vulnerable to anxiety and mood disorders? Can J Psychiatry, 2011
- Evolutionary perspectives in health and medicine, PNAS, 2010
- Social selection and the origins of culture, 2010
Highly Cited
Highly Cited
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- An evolutionary perspective on psychiatry, 1984
- Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, 1995.
- Maladaptation and natural selection, 2005
- Nesse, Dawkins: Evolutionary Medicine chapter in Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2019
- Five evolutionary principles for understanding cancer 2017.
- On the difficulty of defining disease, 2001
- Natural selection and the regulation of defensive responses-Smoke Detector Principle 2005.
- What good is feeling bad? The evolutionary utility of psychic pain, 1991.
- The dawn of Darwinian medicine, 1991
- What is Evolutionary Medicine?
- Making evolution a basic science for medicine, PNAS, 2009
- Cliff-edged fitness functions and schizophrenia, 2004
- How to Test an Evolutionary Hypothesis, 2011
- Tinbergen's Four Questions Organized, TREE, 2013
- The Smoke Detector Principle, EMPH, 2018
- Core Concepts of Evolutionary Medicine, 2017
- Evolutionary explanations of emotions, 1990
- Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric research and practice, 2018
- Evolutionary psychology and mental health. 2015
- Why has natural selection left us so vulnerable to anxiety and mood disorders?, 2011
- Social selection and the origins of culture, 2010
- 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
- The Great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health, Applied Evolution, 2008
