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Randolph Martin Nesse (born July 10, 1948) is an American
physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...
, scientist and author who is notable for his role as a founder of the field of
evolutionary medicine Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease. Modern biomedical research and practice have focused on the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying hea ...
and
evolutionary psychiatry Evolutionary psychiatry, also known as Darwinian Psychiatry, is a theoretical approach to psychiatry that aims to explain psychiatric disorders in evolutionary terms. As a branch of the field of evolutionary medicine, it is distinct from the medic ...
.


Education and career

Nesse studied at
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from 1966 to 1970. He went on to receive his M.D. at the
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in 1974 and carried out his medical residency at the same place. Nesse became an instructor in psychiatry at the
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in 1977 and became an assistant professor there in psychiatry in 1979. He became associate professor in psychiatry in 1985 and professor in psychiatry in 1993 at
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, where he was also a professor of psychology since 2001. Nesse became
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at Michigan at the end of 2013. Since 2014, Nesse became professor of life sciences and ASU Foundation Professor at
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, where he became the Founding Director of the Center for Evolution and Medicine. He was previously a professor of psychiatry, professor of psychology and research professor at the University of Michigan where he led the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program and helped to establish one of the world's first
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disorders clinics and conducted research on neuroendocrine responses to fear.


Research

Nesse's research on the evolution of aging led to a long collaboration with the evolutionary biologist George C. Williams. Their co-authored book, ''Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine'', inspired fast growth of the field of evolutionary medicine. His subsequent research has focused on how natural selection shapes mechanisms that regulate pain, fever, anxiety, low mood, and why emotional disorders are so common. He also has written extensively about the evolutionary origins of moral emotions, and strategies for establishing evolutionary biology as a basic science for medicine. ''Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry'' applies the principles of evolutionary medicine to mental disorders. Nesse was the initial organizer and second president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and is currently the president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the
American Psychiatric Association The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world. It has more than 39,200 members who are in ...
, a Fellow of the
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, and an elected Fellow of the AAAS.


Bibliography


Books and chapters

*Nesse, R. M., & Williams, G. C. (1995). ''Why We Get Sick''. New York: Times Books. *Nesse, R. M. (1999). "Testing evolutionary hypotheses about mental disorders." In S. Stearns (Ed.), ''Evolution in Health and Disease'' (pp. 260–266). New York: Oxford University Press. *Nesse, R. M., & Williams, G. C. (1999). "Research designs that address evolutionary questions about medical disorders." In S. Stearns (Ed.), ''Evolution in Health and Disease'' (pp. 16–26). New York: Oxford University Press.
"Is the market on Prozac?", February 28, 2000 Stanford University Press
*Nesse, Randolph M (Ed.). (2001). Evolution and the capacity for commitment. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. *Nesse, Randolph M, & Dawkins, R. (2010). Evolution: Medicine's most basic science. In D. A. Warrell, T. M. Cox, J. D. Firth, & E. J. J. Benz (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 5th edition (pp. 12–15). Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Papers

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References


External links


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