The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

- Randolph M. Nesse

If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

- Randolph M. Nesse

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals wi…

- 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