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> [“David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social status, good income, ambition, intelligence, and energy--contrary to the views of some cultural anthropologists, who assume that people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/david-buss-has-amassed-a-lot-of-evidence-that-human-females-across/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

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## More by Geoffrey Miller

> [If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/if-you-don-t-have-the-willpower-to-stop-eating-carbs-you-won-t-have/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/these-capacities-for-randomness-may-have-been-amplified-into-human/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“Thus the name of the game when it comes to evolution is not obtaining food or other resources: it is reproduction. Which came first,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/thus-the-name-of-the-game-when-it-comes-to-evolution-is-not-obtaining/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/scientific-theories-never-dictate-human-values-but-they-can-often/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“A person of limited intelligence but high conscientiousness can make a valuable employee; a person of higher intelligence but very low conscientiousness is almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/a-person-of-limited-intelligence-but-high-conscientiousness-can-make/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/psychopathy-is-basically-the-absence-of-sympathy-there-are-fewer/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/our-responsibility-is-not-to-speculate-endlessly-about-the-possible/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/men-write-more-books-men-give-more-lectures-men-ask-more-questions/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social status, good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/david-buss-has-amassed-a-lot-of-evidence-that-human-females-across/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce your contribution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/you-could-be-the-fittest-person-imaginable-in-terms-of-strength/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/existing-political-philosophies-all-developed-before-evolutionary/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/imagine-a-young-isaac-newton-time-travelling-from-1670s-england-to/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/if-most-of-your-courtship-attempts-have-succeeded-you-must-be-a-very/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [“The healthy brain theory proposes that our minds are clusters of fitness indicators: persuasive salesmen like art, music, and humor, that do their best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/the-healthy-brain-theory-proposes-that-our-minds-are-clusters-of/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

> [Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-miller/consumerism-is-hard-to-describe-when-it-s-the-ocean-and-we-re-the/)

[Geoffrey Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-miller/)

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