Arizona State University Professor Randy Nesse (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Arizona State University Professor Randy Nesse

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Far from radical, ASU Professor Randy Nesse's approach brings the well-established principles of evolutionary biology to bear on the urgent problem of better understanding mental illness. He shows how this approach provides psychiatry with the same kind of foundation in biology that physiology provides for the rest of medicine and why it requires understanding individuals as individuals.

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