Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. WILSONBecause the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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