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title: "3 John Tooby Quotes"
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# John Tooby

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John Tooby was an American anthropologist who, together with his psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, pioneered the field of evolutionary psychology.

##  Quotes by John Tooby

> [The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-tooby/the-assertion-that-culture-explains-human-variation-will-be-taken/)

[John Tooby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-tooby/)

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> [Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-tooby/entropy-makes-things-fall-but-life-ingeniously-rigs-the-game-so-that/)

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[Entropy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/entropy/)

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> [Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-tooby/individual-organisms-are-best-thought-of-as-adaptation-executers/)

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[Adaptation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adaptation/)

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