Altruism Quote by Elliott Sober

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for…

— Lewis Thomas

“ALTRUISM WAS, from the very start, a problem for the Darwinian theory of evolution, if not something worse than a problem. As a result,…

— David C. Stove

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could…

— Isabella Rossellini

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think…

— Richard Dawkins

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could…

— Isabella Rossellini

“The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when one slight…

— Diarmaid MacCulloch

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a…

— Daniel Dennett

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

— Ernst Mayr

Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the…

— Mark Pagel

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial…

— Neill Blomkamp

“Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained…

— James Lovelock

I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once…

— Elliott Sober