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Primates Quotes by Steven Pinker
- It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig…
- We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
More Primates Quotes
- The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not… — Robert Anton Wilson
- It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker
- I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas
- Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning. — Michael Shermer
- I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for… — Christiaan Barnard
- No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens
- We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our… — Murray Bookchin
- The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. — H. Allen Smith