Baboons Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's…

— Joy Williams

“Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.”

— Herman Bavinck

The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like…

— Frans de Waal

Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

— Robert Sapolsky

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

— Richard Dawkins

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

— Radhanath Swami

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

— Terrence Howard

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

— Stuart Kauffman

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an…

— Peter Singer