Commentaries on Williams Prize winning article

The $5,000 George C Williams Prize is awarded by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health for the paper judged to be the best research paper published in the preceding year in the Society’s Journal, Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health. Two interesting commentaries have been published about the article that received this year’s George C. Williams Prize.

The article, Adaptive learning can result in a failure to profit from good conditions: implications for understanding depression by Pete C Trimmer, Andrew D. Higginson, Tim W. Fawcett, John M. McNamara, and Alasdair I. Houston, is about how selection can shape regulation systems that result in depression that is useless but inevitable in such systems.

ISEMPH and the journal are grateful to Doris Williams and the other donors who make this prize possible. EMPH welcomes your submissions. Papers published during 2016 will be eligible for next year’s award. ISEMPH members get a substantial discount on publication fees.