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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Arise Character Deeper Religion Then True Well
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Century Challenge Economic Major Majority Much Planet Save Situation
This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Accept Behaviour Choice Corrosive Economic Environmental Ethic Faustian Growth New Ourselves Population Price Risky Stock Unavoidable Upon Very
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Emerge Idea Imagine Own Part Real Sake World Study
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Belief Competing Essential Evolve Group Illogic Religion Selection Strength Weakness
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Ardent Bug Grow Naturalist One Period Thing Up
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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