Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Steve Stewart-Williams

Quote by Steve Stewart-Williams

Work

The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Steve Stewart-Williams

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Steve Stewart-Williams. more

You May Also Like

“As a rule, sexually selected traits tend to be more condition-dependent --and thus more vulnerable to dysfunctions-- than other phenotypes. This contributes to explain why males are generally more vulnerable to both harmful mutations and environmental insults.”

ScienceEvolutionWeaknessMedicineSicknessMalePathologySexual SelectionEvolutionary Studies
Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
Create image

“He had a talismanic obsession with final pages. At school he would near a book's conclusion, whether it was pulp science fiction or The Return of the Native, with one hand firmly clamped over the ultimate paragraph, in case his eye lit on a single word which might rob the entire story of its point, spoil the answer to the riddle of why he was reading it. When he shared this with Genevieve, she admitted to him that she always started a book by reading its final page, that she still did, but she wasn't sure why.”

ReadingBooksEndingReading HabitsRitualsLast LinesLast PageLuke KennardThe Transition
Book:The Transition
Create image