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where are you? i thought you might find amusing that the evolutionsits at harvard are considering whether depression is a positive strategy, taking a small number of people out of the race for awhile

Genetics work on. Group level as well as on individuals . Your pioneer genes are an example . You share many with family but they express themselves in different ways - the genes I mean

On Saturday, December 29, 2012, Pritzker, Tom wrote:

Does this approach suggest that depression is purely genetic?

I'm in Aspen, but I don't think I can ski because I twisted my ankle hunting jaguars on the beaches of Costa Rica. Had Tom Friedman over to the house last night. He's just back from Russia and thinks it may be the scariest place in the world to do business. Couldn't assimilate our deal in Iraq ("wait, are you doing this for Hyatt? Are you doing this as an NGO? Why are you doing this?"). He's just gone through a big family fight so I explained that our family fight caused my body to adjust to a certain adrenaline level and Iraq deal has provided substitute catalyst. That he understood.

tjp