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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
E. O. Wilson
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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.
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I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.
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These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Wonderful theory, wrong species.
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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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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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Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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Theology made no provision for evolution.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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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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[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.
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Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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