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New paper🎉 just published🎉 in Biological Reviews 🎉 We propose a new gold standard to avoid “just-so” storytelling in evolutionary inference & apply it to autism. It’s been 9 years (!!) in the making.

Annie Swanepoel is our second speaker in our Evolutionary Psychiatry workshop at the RCPSYCH today ⁦Reem Abed⁩ ⁦Henry O'Connell⁩ ⁦Adam Hunt⁩ ⁦Gurjot Brar⁩

The belief that psychiatric disorders are distinct entities with specific causes illustrates how #TacitCreationism misrepresents the nature of living systems. See my new article on the topic published last week. Nicholas Fabiano, MD Allen Frances Jerry Coyne

An evolutionary psychiatry debate will be held at New College Oxford on 31 August on themes of depression and EP’s clinical utility followed by drinks and dinner Limited tickets. Booking link eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-evolutio… Derek Tracy Agnes Ayton 💙 Femi Oyebode Adam Hunt Muzaffer Kaser

Major Evol Psychiatry conf at Royal Soc of Medicine in London not to be missed! Great lineup of speakers including Chris Stringer, Robin Dunbar, Samir Okasha and others. Opportunities for audience participation and networking. Link rsm.ac.uk/events/psychia… Derek Tracy Mohammed J Abbas

This is arguably the most important evolutionary psychiatry event of 2025 and is the first ever at the RSM! If you still haven’t booked, check it out! We’d love to see you there! Agnes Ayton 💙 Adam Hunt Gurjot Brar Henry O'Connell Mohammed J Abbas Reem Abed Randy Nesse

Not too late to book your place in this major cross-disciplinary Evolutionary Psychiatry conference at the RSM London 9 June. Opportunity to listen to diverse evolutionary ideas and meet fellow evolutionists Derek Tracy Agnes Ayton 💙 Adam Hunt Muzaffer Kaser Reem Abed

New podcast episode out now! A special episode chatting with Randy Nesse about his journey building evolutionary medicine and psychiatry, and where we are going. Stories from the father of the field which will be fascinating to many! (also on Spotify etc.)youtu.be/VG1vSc3vjlg

My Evolutionary Psychiatry presentation at the British Arab Psychiatric Association annual conference in Coventry today Derek Tracy Reem Abed Agnes Ayton 💙 Henry O'Connell Gurjot Brar Lenny Cornwall Femi Oyebode

Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff A post discussing Randy Nesse’s hypothesis of cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophreni…

TIL “Patients with BD-II often present with recurrent depressive episodes, which outnumber hypomanic episodes by a ratio of 39:1.”

Join us for Free WPA Evolutionary Psychiatry webinar on Thursday 29 May 6pm BST speaker Molly Fox , title is Evolutionary Perspectives on Alzheimer’s wpanet.org/evolutionary-p… Derek Tracy Adam Hunt Henry O'Connell Gurjot Brar Agnes Ayton 💙 Reem Abed Lenny Cornwall

Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse (Randy Nesse ) Nesse provides a great introduction to evolutionary psychiatry and corrects important misconceptions about the discipline in this interview. psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-evol…

Great set questions from Awais Aftab! My attempts to answer them provide an overview of why I think #EvolutionaryPsychiatry has so much to offer...if it is done right! The field is as difficult as it is new and important.

Nessays has moved to Substack! Subscribe to get new posts on evolutionary medicine, psychiatry, and our human foibles. nessays.com

Evolution didn’t build the mind to be happy. It built it to be responsive. Our affective systems track relative status, effort return, social bonds, and reproductive viability. If the world warps those metrics, suffering follows.

This Substack essay, "ADHD is not an adaptation," comments on a research project on foraging theory and ADHD that I have long wanted to see. But I argue that the conclusion–that ADHD is an adaptation–is inconsistent with evolutionary theory. nessays.com/p/adhd-is-not-…

New, hot-off-the-presses! Delighted to share this new paper about why the ubiquitous "Evolution vs. Learning" dichotomy is the wrong way to think about things. Out now in American Psychologist (APA Journals). The paper avoids the boring, underspecified claim that "both matter"

1. The evolution of [proto] music. My arguments against the social bonding hypothesis and in favor of the signaling hypothesis The Explicandum: The evolution in the human lineage of vocalizations that are: * Loud * Synchronized * Variable 🧵

The evolutionary approach to medicine that George Williams I developed was made possible by University of Michigan Provost Nancy Cantor who reallocated half my time from medicine to LSA. It was not a committee, or funding, or a special program, it was a person who made a new field possible.