Videos/Podcasts

Intrinsically vulnerable organic systems Video of my 2019 talk at Mathematical Biology Workshop on "Rules of Life"

Why painful emotions persist, Simplify Podcast 2019

Evolution and mental illness video podcast with Ricard Lopes on "The Dissenter"

Why aren't we happier? Podcast on Public Radio International Innovation Hub

Making Sense of Mental Illness, Podcast on Intelligent Medicine with Ronald Hoffman, MD. Part 1

Making Sense of Mental Illness, Podcast on Intelligent Medicine with Ronald Hoffman, MD. Part 2

Start the week BBC interview (@16.5 min.) February 11, 2019.

Its Not You, Its Evolution, Podcast for Simplify, with Caitlin Schiller (37m) Transcript here

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Video podcast with Robert Wright, March, 2019

Mental Smoke Detectors, Podcast #24 on BigBiology

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings. Podcast of the Stephen Spierer show on TalkRadioOne

Why We Get Sick, a podcast with Charles Kazilek on the website Ask a Biologist

USA Book launch debate and discussion with three panelists

Video overview of Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

Video podcast with Robert Wright

PBS AZ Horizons Interview March 19, 2019 (11 min)

Why We Get Sad: Evolutionary Foundations for Psychiatry. Royal College of Psychiatrists, October 4, 2016

Complex adaptive systems, evolution and disease Feb 2017 Symposium

Breaking the wall to understanding disease, Falling Walls Conference, Berlin, November 9, 2016

Why genes that cause disease persist USCD CARTA talk October 14, 2016

Medicine Without Evolution is like Engineering Without Physics- Ancestral Health Society, June 1, 2016

Doctor Darwin: Is Evolutionary Medicine the Future of Health Linnean Society, London, January 22, 2016.

Evolutionary Medicine at 20: Not yet Mature but on the Way Harvard Museum of Natural History, March 29, 2012

Methods for Testing Hypotheses: Why Darwinian Medicine is Difficult - Lecture at MDIBL 2012 summer course

Darwinian Medicine, Cambridge University Darwin Festival 2009 A short overview of Darwinian medicine and social selection.

Evolutionary Medicine: Envisioning the Opportunities Keynote at Palo Alto Institute Conference 2012 available on YouTube

Evolution and Medicine (unedited footage from UK TV interview on Evolutionary Medicine with Richard Dawkins)

Evolution and Medicine: How New Applications Advance Research and Practice, Henry Stewart Talks Series of 40 lectures edited by Randolph Nesse (Demos available, but full access requires purchase of a subscription. Your university can get a free six month trial. )

What is Grief Good For? Audio lecture based on my research on bereavement

Case Western University's Year of Darwin: The Great Opportunity: New Evolutionary Applications in Medicine

Overview of Evolutionary Applications in Medicine. Sackler Colloquium, National Academy, 2009

The Evolving Body. Podcast at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Darwinian Medicine: The Pleasures and Perils of New Questions Lecture at a Symposium: Darwinian Evolution Across the Disciplines Realplayer version of talks from a Dartmouth Interdisciplinary Symposium October 29-30, 1999, Dartmouth College.

Evolution: The missing basic science that brings psychiatry coherence and deeper empathy. American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture 2005, recorded in MP3. (right click to download)

If evolution is so great, why is depression so common? Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, 2005. QuickTime movie.