Adam D. Hunt PhD

Dr. Adam Hunt is a researcher in the emerging field of evolutionary psychiatry at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is chair of the Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health, serves on the executive committee of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and on the board of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. His PhD thesis, Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity, received summa cum laude from the University of Zurich.

Committed to explaining evolutionary psychiatry to a broader public, Dr. Hunt hosts the Evolving Psychiatry podcast, the only podcast dedicated to the subject, and runs the EPSIG UK YouTube channel. He has written for Works in Progress and Medium, where his article “Is Autism the Next Stage in Human Evolution?” continues to garner significant attention. His academic work has been published in journals such as Autism Research, Neuroscience & Biobehavioural Reviews, and Evolutionary Human Sciences.