Capacity Quote by Geoffrey Miller

“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.”

Geoffrey Miller

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If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

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“Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say…

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“David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social status, good…

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“You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce your contribution…

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“Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not…

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“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid…

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If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

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