Humor Quote by Randolph M. Nesse

“Chlamydia, today´s most common cause of venereal disease, does the equivalent of hiding in the police station. Schistosomes of the mansoni type go a step further and essentially steal police uniforms. These parasites, a serious cause of liver disease in Asia, pick up blood-group antigens so that…” quote by Randolph M. Nesse — Download Open image

““Chlamydia, today´s most common cause of venereal disease, does the equivalent of hiding in the police station. Schistosomes of the mansoni type go a step further and essentially steal police uniforms. These parasites, a serious cause of liver disease in Asia, pick up blood-group antigens so that they may look to the immune system like our own normal blood cells.””

Randolph M. Nesse

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings)

More by Randolph M. Nesse

“[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

Image

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

Randolph M. Nesse

Image

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

Randolph M. Nesse

Image

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

Image

“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

Image

“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

Image

“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

Image

“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.”

Randolph M. Nesse

Image

“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

Image

“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

Image

“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

Image

“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