Biology 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…

— Randolph M. Nesse

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

— Randolph M. Nesse

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

— Randolph M. Nesse

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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Randolph M. Nesse

“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

“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

“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

“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