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Ideas of Edmund O. Wilson, by Text
[American, b.1929, Born in Birmingham, Alabama.]
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p.125
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Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Okasha]
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Ch.1
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p.2
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The only human purpose is that created by our genetic history
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Ch.1
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p.3
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5309
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Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival
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Ch.1
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p.5
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5310
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Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins
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Ch.1
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p.11
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5311
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If observation goes up a level, we expect the laws of the lower level to remain in force
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Ch.3
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p.66
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5312
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A child first sees objects as distinct, and later as members of groups
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Ch.3
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p.67
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The rules of human decision-making converge and overlap in a 'human nature'
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Ch.4
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p.78
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5314
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and fast, biological evolution is Darwinian and slow
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Ch.4
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p.84
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5315
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Over 99 percent of human evolution has been in the hunter-gatherer phase
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Ch.7
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p.149
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5316
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We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it
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Ch.7
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p.156
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5317
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The actor is most convincing who believes that his performance is real
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Ch.7
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p.157
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Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation
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Ch.8
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p.169
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5320
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It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions
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19 'Intro'
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p.450
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The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts
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