Evolutionary Medicine Quotes

“Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

“Understanding and improving health and well-being in contemporary populations cannot be accomplished through the narrow lens of the present.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp

“Understanding and improving health and well-being in contemporary populations cannot be accomplished through the narrow lens of the present.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“Cancer is a threat to almost all multicellular species across the tree of life, and neoplastic formation has been a persistent selective pressure since the dawn of multicellularity.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“Cancer progression is a complex process that develops across many years of an individual's life. It is not aging, per say, that leads to cancer, but the relationship between aging, the accumulation of mutations and the tissue the microenvironment that harbours potentially mutant cells.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach