Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this…

“The logic behind these initiations provides an efficient solution to a pressing cooperation dilemma: in order for a group to survive, it must rely…

— Dimitris Xygalatas

The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

— Ed Seykota

“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.”

— Richard W. Wrangham

“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.”

— Matt J. Rossano

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

— Sallust

New Mexico's greatest resource has always been its people. Our state is filled with individuals proud of our unique culture and history, and who…

— Ben Ray Lujan

“Churches that ignore their communities will not grow, and churches that will not globalize don’t matter much.”

— Calvin Miller

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or…

— Larry Harvey

“I have discussed how the goal of feeling happy is unusual; its not like other goals such as learning to bake a pizza, for…

— Jonathan Rottenberg

“Our immune system is evolving through trials of use in fighting illnesses and the bombardment of our modern world toxins and that this evolution…

— Martha Char Love

“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust…

— Randolph M. Nesse

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their…

— Will Self

“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The unfortunate consequence…

— Jonathan Rottenberg

“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us…

— Abhijit Naskar

Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance.

— Mike Cernovich