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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

~Aaron Diehl

Topics: Complete Continuum Eras Evolutionary How Jazz Keep Language Look Lot Separate Think Those Times

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I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?

~Alexi Zentner

Topics: Asked Being Being Scared Buried Common Day Deep Evolutionary Fantasy Fear Fiction Grew History Instinct Made Myself Name One Day Our Reading Reason Scared Science Science Fiction Something Spiders Survival Thrillers Up Why You

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One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Baby Could Environment Evolutionary Ideal Livestock More Most Mud Nowadays One Of The Things Point Point Of View Relatives Rich Say Than Things Tolerate Us View

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From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Adult Breathing Childhood Children Designed Evolutionary Gives Immaturity Know Learn Literally Master Need Order Period Perspective Protected Special Survive Things Time To Survive Will Young

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One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Beings Childhood Distinctive Evolutionary Features Human Human Beings Long Most Our Protected

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Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Been Came Case Controversy Evidence Evolutionary Faking Field Forward Get Graduate Harvard He Marc Most Often Professor Prominent Psychology Say Students Whose Witness Years

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Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

~Arthur Keith

Topics: Employed Ethical Evolutionary Force German Imagination Means People Process Propaganda Regarded Stretch Terror Tribal War Were Whole

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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

~Arthur Keith

Topics: Against Anti Ascent Christianity Civilization Conditions Earlier Effects Evolutionary Find Laws Like Man Shall Stages Which Works

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I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Appears Back Biologists Capacity Collective Evolutionary Generating Go Human Joy Say Techniques Tend Think Thousands Thousands Of Years Tragic Use Which Years I Think

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The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.

~Beeban Kidron

Topics: Against Biology Evolutionary Me Our Reward Technology Thing Upsets Us Use Uses Which Ubiquitous

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