“The logic behind these initiations provides an efficient solution to a pressing cooperation dilemma: in order for a group to survive, it… — Dimitris Xygalatas 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become… — Robert Charles Wilson 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
“Our immune system is evolving through trials of use in fighting illnesses and the bombardment of our modern world toxins and that… — Martha Char Love 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
“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
“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals… — Geoffrey Miller 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
“Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive because at this very early stage there is… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
