Mark Pagel Quotes
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[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you,…
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Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for…
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It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
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We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.
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It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills…
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No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.
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Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than…
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Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably…
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Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good…
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Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
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We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best…
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Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.
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What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time…
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I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the…
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