“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression.… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Thus the name of the game when it comes to evolution is not obtaining food or other resources: it is reproduction. Which came first,… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share
“A person of limited intelligence but high conscientiousness can make a valuable employee; a person of higher intelligence but very low conscientiousness is almost… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say… — Geoffrey Miller 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 status, good… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce your contribution… — Geoffrey Miller 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 are not… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
