Behavior Quote 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 cognition and behavior to cope with propitious and unpropitious situations.””

Randolph M. Nesse

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

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

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I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

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“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments…

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“Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help…

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“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…

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

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“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…

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“Thanks to subsequent years of conversations with evolutionists, especially Williams, and with medical school residents and faculty, he has found that an evolutionary perspective…

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“Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by predators, threats…

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“Every textbook description of a disease should have, in our opinion, a section devoted to its evolutionary aspects. This section should address the following…

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Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those…

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