Audio Quote by Mark Pagel

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

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the…

— Mark Pagel

It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even…

— Mark Pagel

[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to…

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Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and…

— Mark Pagel

No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

— Mark Pagel

Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that…

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I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as…

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Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather…

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You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

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It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

— Mark Pagel

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

— Mark Pagel