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Richard Dawkins that 'money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism' -
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It reminds us that the genome, great book that it is, may give us the bleakest kind of self-knowledge: the knowledge of our destiny, not the kind of knowledge that you can do something about, but the curse of Tiresias.
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We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth that still fills me with astonishment. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
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The genome is littered, one might almost say clogged, with the equivalent of computer viruses, selfish, parasitic stretches of letters which exist for the pure and simple reason that they are good at getting themselves duplicated.
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It is a remarkable fact that people who have been preparing for an important exam, and have shown the symptoms of stress, are more likely to catch colds and other infections, because one of the effects of Cortisol is to reduce the I50 GENOME activity, number and lifetime of lymphocytes - white blood cells.
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Sexual relations are driven not by what is good, in evolutionary terms, for men or for women, but for their chromosomes. The ability to seduce a woman was good for Y chromosomes in the past; the ability to resist seduction by a man was good for X chromosomes in the past.
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The phenomena we refer to as intelligence may be a byproduct of intergenomic conflict between genes mediating offense and defense in the context of language', write Rice and Holland.
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A Californian firm called Morning Star Tomatoes has been experimenting with 'self-management' for two decades. The result is that Morning Star is the largest processor of tomatoes in the world, handling 40 per cent of California's processed tomato crop.
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Az, hogy ez a konyv kifejezetten egy faj helyzetevel foglalkozik - az emberi fajeval -, semmit nem jelent e faj fontossagat tekintve. Persze az ember valoban kulonleges. A ket fule kozott a bolygo legbonyolultabb biologiai gepezetet hordozza. A komlexitas azonban nem minden, es nem az evolucio celja. Ezen a bolygon minden faj egyedulallo. A paratlansag itt tulkinalatban levo arucikk.
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Depending on whose estimate you choose, and how you correct for inflation, the average person alive in the world today earns in a year between ten and twenty times as much money, in real terms, as the average person earned in 1800. Or rather, he or she can afford ten or twenty times as many goods or services.
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The ten most violent countries in the world in 2014 - Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and North Korea - are all among the least capitalist. The ten most peaceful - Iceland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, Japan, Belgium and Norway - are all firmly capitalist.
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One survey shows that throughout the world and throughout history, from thirteenth-century England to modern Canada, from Kenya to Mexico, men have killed men much more often - on average about ninety-seven
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One survey shows that throughout the world and throughout history, from thirteenth-century England to modern Canada, from Kenya to Mexico, men have killed men much more often - on average about ninety-seven times more often - than women have killed women.
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Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong. The history of human science is not encouraging. Galton's eugenics, Freud's unconscious, Durkheim's sociology, Mead's culture-driven anthropology, Skinner's behaviorism, Piaget's early learning, and Wilson's sociobiology all appear in retrospect to be riddled with errors and false perspectives. No doubt the Red Queen's approach is just another chapter in this marred tale. No doubt its politici..
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Letting good evolve, while doing bad, has been the dominant theme of history. That is why the news is full of only bad things being done, but we find when they are over that great good has happened unheralded. Good things are gradual; bad things are sudden. Above all, good things evolve.
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As James Watson has put it, 'We talk about gene therapy as if it can change someone's fate, but you can also change someone's fate if you pay off their credit card.
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Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim
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book is a piece of digital information, written in linear, one-dimensional and one-directional form and defined by a code that transliterates a small alphabet of signs into a large lexicon of meanings through the order of their groupings.
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Everything can be inherited except sterility.
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In behavior, as in appearance, every human individual is unique.
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When a neo-Darwinian asks 'Why?' he is really asking 'How did this come about?' He is a historian.
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Evolving is not a goal but a means to solving a problem.
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The longer your generation time, the more genetic mixing you need to combat your parasite.
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It is sometimes hard even for biologists to remember that sex is merely a genetic joint venture.
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the males best at seduction tend to be the best at other things as well.
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conditioning usually reinforces instinct rather than overrides it.
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Wealth and power are means to women; women are means to genetic eternity.
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Almost everything in the body, from hair to hormones, is either made of proteins or made by them.
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Human beings accumulate about one hundred mutations per generation.
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All rules have exceptions (including this one).
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That life is chemistry is true but boring, like saying that football is physics.
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Life consists of the interplay of two kinds of chemicals: proteins and DNA.
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In other words, a record of our past is etched into our genes.
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Genes are recipes for both anatomy and behaviour.
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No study of the causes of intelligence has failed to find a substantial heritability.
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If you still thought evolution was about the good of the species, stop thinking so right now.
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Judges were never very good at science.
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The politicisation of the issue has had absurd results.
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At its birth eugenics was not a politicised science; it was a science-ised political creed.
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Determinism looks backwards to the causes of the present state, not forward to the consequences.
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