Animal Quote by Frans de Waal

“But because humans are intensely social animals, they also faced a recurring set of crucial social evolutionary challenges. These evolutionary challenges include (1) evading…

— Vladas Griskevicius

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

— Leon Kass

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

— Peter Singer

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with…

— Frans de Waal

People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Our species likes being social.

— John Cho

Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that has such…

— Brian Boyd

“So, don’t believe anyone who says that since nature is based on a struggle for life, we need to live like this as well.…

— Frans de Waal

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…

— Steven Pinker

If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among…

— William James

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

— Robert Nozick