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.
E. O. WILSONThe education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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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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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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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