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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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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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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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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