Biology Quote by Randolph M. Nesse

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

— Steven Pinker

“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

“Evolution wasn’t a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial. And the doctor knew those were few…

— Evan C. Currie

It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't…

— Paul W. Ewald

“For all we know, our ancestors may have had better reproductive success not because they were smart, but because they were emotionally sensitive, dynamically…

— Meredith F. Small

“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus on what…

— S.J. Scott

Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or…

— Huntington Willard

“Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.”

— Jon Scott

I'm always trying to find ways to evolve. Evolution, for me, is a very spiritual thing, getting closer to the creator, closer to God,…

— Sterling K. Brown

“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment. In some cases, the appropriate medical intervention to mitigate a disease…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“improving on the natural course if evolution—which, attendees argued, could be so cruel as to justify some sort of intervention.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk