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Randolph M. Nesse
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
by Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams — published 1994 — 3 editions |
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Evolution And Healing
by Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams — 2 editions |
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Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment
— published 1999 |
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Understanding Depression: A Translational Approach
by Carmine Pariante , Randolph M. Nesse , David J. Nutt — published 2009 |
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Spousal Bereavement in Late Life
by Deborah Carr , Randolph M. Nesse — published 2005 |
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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 genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help us to understand the evolutionary origins of disease, and this knowledge will prove profoundly useful in achieving the legitimate goals of medicine.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are bad for us but have less desire for pure grains and vegetables? Why do we keep eating when we know we are too fat? And why is our willpower so weak in its attempts to restrain our desires? Why are male and female sexual responses so uncoordinated, instead of being shaped for maximum mutual satisfaction? Why are so many of us constantly anxious, spending our lives, as Mark Twain said, "suffering from tragedies that never occur"? Finally, why do we find happiness so elusive, with the achievement of each long-pursued goal yielding not contentment, but only a new desire for something still less attainable? The design of our bodies is simultaneously extraordinarily precise and unbelievably slipshod. It is as if the best engineers in the universe took every seventh day off and turned the work over to bumbling amateurs.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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