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Evolutionary Quotes by Steven Pinker
- In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,…
- The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying…
- Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
- There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if…
- Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and…
- Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate…
- Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone…
More Evolutionary Quotes
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak
- The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma
- One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget.… — Candace Pert
- Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make… — David Simon
- People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage… — Anna Quindlen
- The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through… — Fred Hoyle
- The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have… — Kenneth E. Boulding