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I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

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Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology…
We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on…
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate…
Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side
Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way…
If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,…
Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of…
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the…

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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. — Ben Stein
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It was always assumed that I would go to college. — Paul D. Boyer

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