Altruism Quote by Isabella Rossellini

“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

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

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

— Elliott Sober

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

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

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

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or…

— Richard Dawkins

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

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

— George W. Bush

“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to…

— Richard Dawkins

“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.”

— Karen Armstrong

“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.”

— Mark Twain