“God is nature’s antidote to misery, and religion is the capsule it comes in.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.” — Richard W. Wrangham Copy Share Image
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature... — Stanton Peele 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
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.” — Dimitris Xygalatas 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
“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
Check your testosterone levels. Every study on evolutionary psychology has correlated testosterone levels with dominance. — Mike Cernovich 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
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
“In trying to make sense of this pessimism, Ridley, like Kahneman, sees a combination of cognitive biases and evolutionary psychology as the… — Peter H. Diamandis 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
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
“[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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Piaget may 'be about' stages or cognitive development only in the way that Newton 'is about' gravity, or Columbus the West Indies,… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“Why do women spend so much time in talking to their female peers? The answer can again be found in the process… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation… — V.S. Ramachandran 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
“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
“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind… — Steven Pinker 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
“Ironically, the same scientific disciplines which shape our milk machines and egg machines have lately demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that mammals and… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“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
“We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring… — Jack Gilbert 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
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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