Videos and Podcasts

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

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

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.