If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth. — Geoffrey Miller Carbs Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Capacity Copy Share Image
“Thus the name of the game when it comes to evolution is not obtaining food or other resources: it is reproduction. Which… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Accumulation Copy Share Image
“A person of limited intelligence but high conscientiousness can make a valuable employee; a person of higher intelligence but very low conscientiousness… — Geoffrey Miller Employee 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 Evolutionary psychology Copy Share Image
“Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache… — Geoffrey Miller Children Copy Share Image
“Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups.… — Geoffrey Miller Biology 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 Different cultures Copy Share Image
“You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce… — Geoffrey Miller 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 Evolution Copy Share Image
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an… — Geoffrey Miller Alchemy Copy Share Image
If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too… — Geoffrey Miller Attractive Copy Share Image
“The healthy brain theory proposes that our minds are clusters of fitness indicators: persuasive salesmen like art, music, and humor, that do… — Geoffrey Miller Art Copy Share Image
Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton. — Geoffrey Miller Consumerism Copy Share Image
