It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
E. O. WILSONAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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