“God is nature’s antidote to misery, and religion is the capsule it comes in.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.” — Richard W. Wrangham Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano Copy Share Image
“The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.” — Dimitris Xygalatas Copy Share Image
“You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way you face and… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature... — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
“With the rise of AI, machines may or may not become sentient, but one thing is for certain - human mind will… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Depressed people become unable to remember happy times, or times when they even had a normal mood. The very concept of a… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“Fear of heights begins to manifest as soon as infants start crawling; fears of animals and monsters first appear when toddlers begin… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What is the Conscious leap? Conscious leap is a term that refers to a process of change. It specifies a particular point… — Katerina Kostaki Copy Share Image
“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When a person believes that a God is truly concerned about the well-being of life on earth, and especially of human life,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“According to Laura Betzig, in the first civilizations (ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Aztec, the Inca, imperial India, and China), “powerful men mate… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.”10 This is a curious notion… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success,"… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“We became an intelligent species by solving problems, and now that we are entering a technological era where we no longer need… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the same scientific disciplines which shape our milk machines and egg machines have lately demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that mammals and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“AI - The Whole Picture In medicine, we have a condition called oxygen toxicity, which means, even oxygen can do harm if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychology offers a parsimonious framework for understanding which domains are likely to yield sex differences and, if so, in which direction. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
