Videos/Podcasts
Why aging exists at all, video of a 1 hour lecture for the Arizona Senior Academy, 2024 (audio comes in at 1:45)
Is anxiety inherited? Happy Habit podcast # 362 with Mathieu Norry, 2023.
The future of evolutionary medicine, keynote for a 90 minute 2023 Frontiers Forum with 6 speakers.
Emotional Disorders, a 2023 audio podcast on "The Thinking Mind" with psychiatrist Alex Curmi.
Can Evolution Explain Human Emotions? 2023 Modern Wisdom Podcast 542 with Chris Williamson
Talks on Evolutionary Medicine at University of Milano-Bicocca, June 2023, talk starts at 15:30
The Saad Truth vIdeo podcast 2023
Why depression exists: Panel discussion on Television Ontario, The Agenda, with Steve Palin, 2023
A six minute YouTube video about the Smoke Detector Principle
Good (Evolutionary) Reasons for Bad Feelings 2022 Nature Nurture Video Podcast
Why do mental disorders persist? Evolving Psychiatry 2022 video podcast (17 min.)
The Evolution of Anxiety Evolving Psychiatry 2022 video podcast (16 min.)
Why Relationships Exist: Evolutionary Foundations for Psychotherapy
Video of a 2022 talk for the World Psychiatry Association
Evolutionary Psychiatry A narrated slideshow from HSTalks, not open access.
What is evolutionary medicine? A 13 minute overview on YouTube
Grand Rounds, Texas Health Resources University, 2022
Intrinsically vulnerable control systems and disease heritability, 13 minute video
Evolutionary Psychiatry 40 minute video for Abertay University (talk starts at 3 minutes).
Why Bad feelings are usually normal but useless. Video of a 12 min talk for HBES 2021.
Video from 52 Living Ideas MeetUp discussion about Good Reasons for Bad Feelings, 2021
Video of Grand Rounds, Tufts University Department of Psychiatry, 2021
Varför mår vi så dåligt? Podcast (in English) with the wonderful Stockholm psychiatrist/author/podcaster Åsa Nilsonne about the evolutionary origins of unsatisfiable desires, 2021
Video on Tacit Creationism in emotions research
Podcast from the Jordan Harbinger show
Lecture on Evolutionary Psychiatry for a class at Oxford University in 2020 (60 minutes, my most comprehensive overview of evolutionary psychiatry)
Big Biology Audio Podcast on Mental Smoke Detectors 2020
Podcast for Thoughts on Record--This 2020 podcast with Pete Kelly is the best one for psychotherapists who are curious about how evolutionary thinking can help them...and their patients
Grand Rounds August 2020 for the University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry
2020 podcast on Good Reasons for Bad Feelings from the Jordan Harbinger show
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"
Video of a talk on evolutionary medicine and diet for Ancestral Health conference, 2016
How to test an evolutionary hypothesis about disease 2013.
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 podcast with Robert Wright
PBS AZ Horizons Interview March 19, 2019 (11 min)
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
Doctor Darwin: Is Evolutionary Medicine the Future of Health Linnean Society, London, January 22, 2016.
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: 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
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.