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Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Aversion Benefits Brain Communities Cooperation Developments Evolutionary Experienced Helped Humans Included Instincts Loss Psychologists Risk Strengthen Suggest

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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Ancestors Combination Dislike Disregard Early Empty Encourages Everything Evolutionary Explain Genes History Kind Morally Name Our People Really Science Speculation Terms Think Tone Who

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Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.

~Bill Buford

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I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Anything Anything Else Architecture Believe Board Come Crash Drawing Else Evolutionary Evolve Ideas Life Outer Outer Space Space I Believe I Believe That

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At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

~Bo Burnham

Topics: Also Amazing Ape Comedy Evolutionary Fact Feel Free Free Time Just Maybe Once Open Something Sort Thing Time Transcendent Upright I Feel

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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

~Buzz Aldrin

Topics: Clean Clean Up Continue Dirty Evolutionary Eyes Forward Just Lift Look Looking Make Move Move Forward Our Over Resources Skies Spend Spots Them Try Trying Up Way World

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Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

~Charles Jencks

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The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

~Charles Lindbergh

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Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Also Ape Because Biology Bow Bring Close Conversation Easy Eat Evolutionary Female Gender How Live Male People Point Some Some People Sort Thing Trees Uncomfortable Up Ways Will

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In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.

~Chris Adami

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