Randolph M. Nesse, M.D.

• Research 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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How to frame and test an evolutionary hypothesis about a disease.
Diseases are not traits shaped by selection so they do not have direct evolutionary explanations. Traits that make a species vulnerable to disease are appropriate objects of evolutionary explanations; several may be needed!

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings:

Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

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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