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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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