Books Quote by Stanton Peele

The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!

— Gad Saad

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

— Steven Pinker

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

— Steven Pinker

The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the…

— Steven Pinker

“we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.”

— Jacob Bronowski

“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

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

— Richard K. Morgan

“The mysteries of psychology pale in comparison, just as evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.”

— Maggie Nelson

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

— Robert Ardrey

“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and…

— Steven Pinker

“evolution  only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.”

— Martin Faulks

“as Gilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the…

— Carol S. Dweck