Physician and evolutionary medicine pioneer
Randolph M. Nesse is an American physician and professor at Arizona State University who is widely recognised as a founder of the field of evolutionary medicine. His work, including the influential book Why We Get Sick co authored with George C. Williams, applies evolutionary biology to understanding human disease and vulnerability.
by Randolph M. Nesse
Nesse applies Darwinian thinking to medicine, arguing symptoms like fever and anxiety are evolved defenses, not malfunctions. Evolution explains why we're vulnerable to disease.
The books Randolph M. Nesse references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins reframes evolution from the organism's perspective to the gene's. Bodies are survival machines built by genes competing to replicate - a view that transformed modern biology.
by Charles Darwin
Darwin lays out the evidence that species evolve through natural selection, where small heritable variations accumulate over generations. The theory unified biology and changed how we understand life.
Who Randolph draws from, and who draws from Randolph — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.