Quotes About Adaptation

in becoming human, man had acquired, together with his straight legs and striding walk, a migratory 'drive' or instinct to walk long distances through the seasons; that this 'drive' was inseparable from his central nervous system; and that, when warped in conditions of settlement, it found outlets in violence, greed, status-seeking or a mania for the new. This

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes it's even a good idea.

Change will come, whether we wish it to or not. To fight it is like fighting the sunrise. Better to say, 'Ah, welcome old friend. Here you are again.

One of the most remarkable properties of our brain is its capacity to change and adapt to our individual world. Neurons and neural networks actually make physical changes when stimulated; this is called neuroplasticity. The way they become stimulated is through our particular experiences. The brain changes in a 'use dependent' way.

Through moderate, predictable challenges our stress response systems are activated moderately. This makes for a resilient, flexible stress response capacity. The stronger stress response system in the present is the one that has had moderate, patterned stress in the past.

Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don't use it much anymore.

Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.

Brain development is use-dependent: you use it or you lose it. If we don't give children time to learn how to be with others, to connect, to deal with conflict, and to negotiate complex social hierarchies, those areas of their brains will be underdeveloped.

Indeed, if moderate, predictable and patterned, it is stress that makes a system stronger and more functionally capable.

What you are pointing out is how adaptive it is to dissociate in many situations. If a soldier in combat simply went down the arousal continuum-and got to the flee and then fight stages-he would jump up and get shot. In order to maintain access to parts of his cortex-to think and behave in the ways he was trained to keep him alive in combat-he needs to dissociate to a certain degree.

What we call "cuteness" is actually an evolutionary adaptation that helps ensure that parents will care for their children, that babies will get their needs met, and that parents will take on this seemingly thankless task with pleasure.

El desarrollo del cerebro es uso-dependiente: o lo usas o lo pierdes.

One of the most remarkable properties of our brain is its capacity to change and adapt to our individual world. Neurons and neural networks actually make physical changes when stimulated; this is called neuroplasticity. The way they become stimulated is through our particular experiences:

human beings have been human beings—in this genetic form—for about 250,000 years. And for 99.9 percent of that time, we lived in hunter-gatherer bands of relatively small multifamily groups.

If you look carefully at our biology after a traumatic experience-all the way down to the way genes are expressed-trauma will change everyone in some way.

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ultimately altered their ability to respond properly to stress for a lifetime.

Through moderate, predictable challenges our stress response systems are activated moderately. This makes for a resilient, flexible stress response capacity. The stronger stress response system in the present is the one that has had moderate, patterned stress

The good news is that the brain is malleable all through life. We can change. But we don't randomly change. To use your favorite word, we can intentionally change if we know what needs to be addressed. The key is to recognize the patterns.

Biyoloji sadece deÄŸiÅŸtirilmeyen bir senaryoyu oynayan genlerden ibaret deÄŸildir. Evrimsel süreçlerde olduÄŸu gibi etraftaki dünyaya kar?? da duyarl?d?r.

Unpredictability and the unknown make everyone feel anxious and therefore less able to process information accurately.

caminar de manera coordinada responde a un mesencéfalo y un tronco encefálico bien regulados, regiones cruciales para la coordinación de la respuesta al estrés.