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“People often expect religious believers to act in especially prosocial ways, which they often do, but religiosity is not always a predictor or moral kindness.”

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Book:The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

“Cooking was a great discovery not merely because it gave us better food, or even because it made us physically human. It did something even more important: it helped make our brains uniquely large, providing a dull human body with a brilliant human mind.”

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Book:Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Source: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

“History is far more important than evolutionary theorizing as a reminder about human potential, because the historical evidence of change is so much more vivid.”

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Book:The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

“We should accept the likelihood that male violence and male dominance over women have long been a part of our history. But with an evolutionary perspective we can firmly reject the pessimists who say it has to stay that way. Male demonism is not inevitable.”

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Book:Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Source: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

“...those who have political power can count on someone coming to their aid - the police or the military or the mob or the family, or the royal guard.”

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Book:Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Source: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

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