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.
E. O. WILSONThe education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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