This page contains links to a number of introductory texts, mainly from the early days of Darwinian medicine, that the general reader, or the reader new to the idea of evolutionary medicine, will find useful.
Reviews of Nesse and Williams' "Evolution and Healing" (in UK) - "Why We Get Sick" (in US):
External links to other useful texts:
Evolutionary Medicine in The Annual Review of Anthropology (2007) by Wenda R. Trevathan
Darwin in Medical School by Mitzi Baker
(Stanford Medicine Magazine - Stanford Univ. Sch. Med.)
A New Prescription: The Evolution of Darwinian Medicine by Ilanit Tof
Darwinian Medicine by Timothy Shanahan
The following are some useful texts that have come into my possession, but I cannot find their source. If you know from whence they originate, please let me know by email so that I can give the authors full recognition.
Darwinian (Evolutionary) Medicine – Editorial by J. Graham Smith
Dr Darwin's Rx by Beth Saulnier
The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (Student Essay) by Tang Pui Ling
The following is a selection of articles, in reverse chronological order, by Randolph Nesse. This selection deals with topics of a more somatic, rather than psychiatric, nature. A more extensive list of Nesse's work – including his work dealing evolutionary medicine in relation to psychiatric conditions – can be found on his website [See]:
Nesse, R.M. (2012). Evolution: A basic science for medicine. In: Poiani A., (ed.) Pragmatic Evolution: Applications of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp107-14.
Nesse, R.M. (2008). Evolution: medicine's most basic science. Lancet, 372: S21-27.
Stearns, S., Nesse, R., & Haig, D. (2008) Introducing evolutionary thinking for medicine. Evolution in Health and Disease. New York: Oxford University Press. pp3–15.
Nesse R.M., & Stearns, S.C. (2008). The Great Opportunity: Evolutionary Applications in Medicine. Evolutionary Applications, 1 (1): 28-48.
Nesse, R.M., Stearns, S.C., & Omenn, G.S. (2006). Medicine needs evolution (editorial). Science 311:1071.
Nesse, R.M., & Schiffman, J.D. (2003) Evolutionary Biology in the Medical School Curriculum. BioScience 53 (6): 585-587.
Nesse, R.M. (2001) Medicine's missing basic science. The New Physician, Dec. 2001: 8-10.
Nesse, R.M. (2001) How is Darwinian medicine useful? Western Medical Journal, 174: 358-359.
Nesse, R.M. (2001) On the difficulty of defining disease: A Darwinian perspective. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 4:37-46.
Nesse, R.M., & Williams, G.C. (1999) On Darwinian medicine. Life Science Research 3 (1): 1-17.
Nesse, R.M., & Williams, G.C. (1998) Evolution and the Origins of Disease. Scientific American, 29 (5): 86-93.
Nesse, R.M. & Williams, G.C. (1997) Evolutionary biology in the medical curriculum: What every physician should know. Bioscience 47: 664-666.
Williams, G.C., & Nesse, R.M. (1991) The dawn of Darwinian medicine. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 66:1-22.
The following are some useful published articles for which there is limited online access:
McCrone, J. (2003). Darwinian Medicine. The Lancet - Neurology, 2(August), 516.
Olshansky, S., Carnes, B., & Butler, R. (2001). If Humans Were Built To Last. Scientific American, 284(3), 42-47.
A news article about the above, at sciencedaily.com.