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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. WILSON

Altruism Among Group Individual Member Mix Selfishness Society Versus Virtue
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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