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• Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.
• The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.
• Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is…
• It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern…
• You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and,…
• Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.
• Trade is 10 times as old as farming.
• The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
• Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
• We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people…
• How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences…
• The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

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