“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
“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
“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
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas 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
“Marketing is a never-ending story. It’s about perpetual motion where innovation plays the lead role.” — Stacey Kehoe 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
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
“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
“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
“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low… — Randolph M. Nesse 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance. — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
“This is the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology: a need shaped in the wild continues to be felt subjectively even if it… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict,… — Douglas T. Kenrick 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… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“I have discussed how the goal of feeling happy is unusual; its not like other goals such as learning to bake a… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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