Ambient Quote by Jerry Fodor

Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness…

— Kyle Hill

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

— Rita Mae Brown

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary…

— Michael Pollan

“What surprises me most when surveying the great destinies of man is always seeing before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

— Elliott Sober

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

— Francis Picabia

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

— John Tooby

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

— Tom Ford

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

— Nancy Friday

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

— Gabor Mate

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies…

— John Maynard Smith

“Our study suggests that given the right culture, women are as competitively inclined as men, and even more so in many situations. Competitiveness, then,…

— Uri Gneezy