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“Just because humans have become "advanced" enough to vaccinate their young, write histories, and speculate about our origins, this does not mean that evoutionary processes have ceased to operate.”

Book:Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

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“Instead of causes, biology is repeatedly about propensities, potentials, vulnerabilities, predispositions, proclivities, interactions, modulations, contingencies, if/then clauses, context dependencies, exacerbation or diminution of preexisting tendencies. Circles and loops and spirals and Möbius strips.”

Human Good And Evil Biology

Book:Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“To be good is just never to lose it. How does evil begin in a life? How can it begin? Yet we were there once.”

Human Good And Evil

Book:The Italian Girl

Source: The Italian Girl

“People may have finely tuned coalitional capacities, but they do not necessarily have access to how these work. The cues that make some people appear reliable and others less so are computed in ways that often escape conscious attention.”

Religion Human Evolutionary Psychology Cognition Ancestral Bias

Book:Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought