Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

by Randolph M. Nesse

  FURTHER READING

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  Dugatkin LA. The altruism equation: seven scientists search for the origins of goodness. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

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  Horwitz AV, Wakefield JC. The loss of sadness: how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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  McGuire MT, Troisi A. Darwinian psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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  Nesse RM, Williams GC. Why we get sick: the new science of Darwinian medicine. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

  Pinker S. The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature. New York: Viking, 2002.

  Ridley M. The origins of virtue: human instincts and the evolution of cooperation. New York: Viking, 1996.

  Rottenberg J. The depths: the evolutionary origins of the depression epidemic. New York: Basic Books, 2014.

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  Zimmer C. Evolution: the triumph of an idea. New York: Random House, 2011.

  NOTES

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  CHAPTER 1 | A NEW QUESTION

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