“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments and experience loves and hates that shape their lives. They have religious beliefs that guide their… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove. — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always terrible-people want… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“Thanks to subsequent years of conversations with evolutionists, especially Williams, and with medical school residents and faculty, he has found that an evolutionary perspective… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by predators, threats… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“Every textbook description of a disease should have, in our opinion, a section devoted to its evolutionary aspects. This section should address the following… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
“Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are bad for… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share
