---
title: "1 Acquires Quotes By Mark Pagel"
description: "1 Acquires quotes by Mark Pagel. Plus more from Mark Pagel and more Acquires sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/mark-pagel-31694_accumulate_having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-ani_1416172.png"
---

> [Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-animal-that-acquires-the-rules/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/mark-pagel-31694_accumulate_having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-ani_1416172.png)

## More by Mark Pagel

> [Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/natural-selection-has-duped-us-with-an-emotion-that-encourages-group/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/we-owe-our-big-brains-less-to-inventiveness-than-to-conflicts-of/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/it-is-an-emotion-that-makes-us-act-as-if-for-the-good-of-the-group-an/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/each-of-you-possesses-the-most-powerful-dangerous-and-subversive/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [ \[Language allows you\] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/language-allows-you-to-implant-a-thought-from-your-mind-directly-into/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/culture-has-worked-by-coming-to-exercise-a-form-of-mind-control-over/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/no-wonder-the-creationists-don-t-believe-the-darwinian-account/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/humans-like-to-think-of-themselves-as-unusual-we-ve-got-big-brains/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/i-think-the-driving-force-for-cultural-evolution-is-this-desire-for/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-animal-that-acquires-the-rules/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/you-and-i-probably-wouldn-t-be-here-if-our-ancestors-hadn-t-been/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/it-might-be-inevitable-that-we-have-to-confront-the-idea-that-our/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/we-willingly-accept-and-even-embrace-this-mind-control-and-probably/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/nothing-in-our-evolutionary-history-specifically-prepared-us-to-live/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

> [What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/what-drives-the-separation-of-groups-of-people-into-subgroups-is-the/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquires/mark-pagel/#itemlist",
            "name": "1 Acquires Quotes By Mark Pagel",
            "numberOfItems": 1,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Mark Pagel"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-animal-that-acquires-the-rules/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/mark-pagel-31694_accumulate_having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-ani_1416172.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/mark-pagel-31694_accumulate_having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-ani_1416172.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/mark-pagel-31694_accumulate_having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-ani_1416172.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated…” — Mark Pagel",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquires/mark-pagel/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquires/mark-pagel/",
            "name": "Acquires Quotes by Mark Pagel",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquires/mark-pagel/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/mark-pagel-31694_accumulate_having-culture-means-we-are-the-only-ani_1416172.png"
            },
            "description": "1 Acquires quotes by Mark Pagel. Plus more from Mark Pagel and more Acquires sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquires/mark-pagel/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquires/mark-pagel/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Acquires",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquires/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Mark Pagel",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquires/mark-pagel/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```