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We're getting along so well I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.

Robert M. Sapolsky

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We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.
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The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.
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The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery.
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I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.
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Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.
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Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.
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