We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.