Geoffrey Miller quotes
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“Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.”
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“Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.”
-- Geoffrey MillerSource : Geoffrey Miller (2009). “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”, p.8, Penguin
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“If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.”
-- Geoffrey MillerSource : "Geoffrey Miller, Visiting NYU Professor, Slammed For Fat-Shaming Obese PhD Applicants" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2013.
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“If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.”
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“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.”
-- Geoffrey Miller
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“The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.”
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Source : "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.
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