darwinian medicine

Randolph Nesse, a wonderful scientist who together with George Williams founded the field of darwinian medicine (evolutionary medicine), gave a talk at “Evolutionary Foundations for Medicine and Public Health: Focus on Infection and Cancer”, a course that was offered from August 6-10, 2012 at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine.

In his talk 25 minute talk, he tackles a wide range of examples of questions that evolutionary medicine can potentially answer, and related methodological issues we face. Good introduction into the field if you’re interested, and quite closely connected to evolutionary psychology, especially evolutionary psychopathology (which, I guess, could translate into darwinian psychiatry).