“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
“Anthropologist Donald Symons is as amazed as we are at frequent attempts to argue that monogamous gibbons could serve as viable models… — Cacilda Jethá 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
“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
“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
“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
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano 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
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas 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
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
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
“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
“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.” — Richard W. Wrangham Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist… — Hanna Rosin 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
“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
“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
“[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women—with babies to protect… — Naomi Alderman 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
“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
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
