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Randy Nesse's essays on why evolution left us vulnerable to sickness, suffering, and simplistic thinking.

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I am a physician and evolutionary biologist working to understand why natural selection left us vulnerable to disease, distress, and distorted thinking. My specialties are evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry.