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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
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
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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All Ant Bird One Seen Them Tree When
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Alive Ancestor Another Essential Humanity Intellectual Keep Large Purpose Sacred Sense
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Anything Desire History Passion Same Science Taight Truth
Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Bug Every Grew Kid never Out Period
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Around Depend Energy Fungal Major Material Olayerm Cycle World
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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Accept Another Dilemma Discover Essence Evolve Genitival Humanity One Spiritual Truth
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Decide Decommissioned Deep Look Must Natural Ourselves Selection Wish
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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Atmosphere Better Democratic End Principle Product Win
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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Altruism Colleague Kin Mathematician Origin Reigning Selection Theory Time
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
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Nonfiction Novel People Red Respect
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Adaption Belief Evolved Hard Itself Religion Tribalistic Wired
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Company Further Growth Share Willing Withhold
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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Author Biblical Evolution God Important Miss Most Privy Provision Really Revelation Theology
Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Aim Alone Behave Endure Failure High Honorably Prepare Time
Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Assumption Condition Human Part Relentless Science Test
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Another Committed Fail Find Forgive Guy Lost Quest Those
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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Correct Destruction Diversity Genetic Go Habitat Loss Million Natural Now Only Process Species Take Will Year
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Blind Express Faith Nom Natter Passionate
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Aesthetic Cognitive Even Hold Intellectual Key Nature Satisfaction Spiritual
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Drown Information Starve Wisdom
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Best Education Environment Save Way Women
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
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

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