Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. WILSONAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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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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