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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Ant Complicate Earth Human Most Next Organization Social
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
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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Altruist Always Among Beat Compete Contest Group Human Individual Intense Selfish Win
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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Ant Creature Dead Depend Land Lead Remove
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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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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Among Conflict Consequence Creation Ought People Difference Recognize Story Strife
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Any Create Green Next Other Revolution Seem Way
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Brain Constant Distrore Immediate Input Map Often Sensory World
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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Altruism Among Group Individual Member Mix Selfishness Society Versus Virtue
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Environment Living Really Sustain Us
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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Always Been Belief Belong Great Human People Relationship Superior Survival Tribe Value
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Arise Character Deeper Religion Then True Well
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Ant Biomass Cemetery Dominant Inspect Make Myuchm Quater Predators Principal Tell Well Worker
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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Always Back Carrer Mind New Point Reach Ready Something Write

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