Robert Trivers quotes
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“The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.”
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“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.”
-- Robert Trivers
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Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “Ill-Made Mute”, p.1, Pan Macmillan
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“I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.”
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Source : "Sundance Interview with Lynn Shelton - Director of Touchy Feely". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, womenandhollywood.com.
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“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.”
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“The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.”
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