"Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control……" — Robert Wright
"Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer."
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19 Quotes by Robert Wright
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Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information…
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Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth,…
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Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is…
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God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond…
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Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep…
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Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver
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Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
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If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given…
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Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when…
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Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And…
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Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity…
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