"Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us……" — Mark Pagel
"Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does."
More Almost Everything Quotes
- Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. — William Ellery Channing
- When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. — Winston Churchill
- Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts… — Ursula K. Le Guin
- Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. — Benjamin Disraeli
- The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
- When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be… — John W. Gardner
- Time heals almost everything. Give time time. — Regina Brett
- The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. — Warren Buffett
- A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw… — William Stafford
- Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. — Quintilian