Author

Books by Randolph M. Nesse

Randolph M. Nesse is a professor of life sciences at Arizona State University and the founding director of the Center for Evolution and Medicine. He spent decades on the faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School as a psychiatrist and researcher. With evolutionary biologist George C. Williams he co-wrote Why We Get Sick, a foundational text in evolutionary medicine. His work has shaped how a generation of researchers and clinicians think about the biological origins of vulnerability to disease and mental suffering.