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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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