Able Quote by Robert Nozick

“there is a pressure for genes to be selfish, but in an enlightened way, to collaborate, coordinate, and play their small part in ensuring…

— Daniel Bor

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that…

— Ben Bernanke

If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with…

— Adolf Hitler

Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be…

— Stephen Hawking

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

— Jonas Salk

“This is the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology: a need shaped in the wild continues to be felt subjectively even if it is no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In short, we evolved, like other animals, to win the reproduction game. That contest has a single aim, to leave as many descendants as…

— Jared Diamond

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

— Richard K. Morgan

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand…

— Anonymous

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

Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature

— Joseph Addison

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

— John Tooby