Heart Quote by Robert Sapolsky

Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly apply for…

— Robert Sapolsky

Baboons are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression.

— Robert Sapolsky

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

— Robert Sapolsky

Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“This is the critical point of this book: if you are that zebra running for your life, or that lion sprinting for your meal,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed…

— Robert Sapolsky

“if you’re stressed like a normal mammal in an acute physical crisis, the stress response is lifesaving. But if instead you chronically activate the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill.…

— Caroline Myss

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

— Anonymous

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

— Anonymous

While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound…

— Peter A. Levine