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The enemy of science is not religion ... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
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Denmark has incredibly low crime rates, and parents feel that what a child needs most is frisk luft, or fresh air. The
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The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese.
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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
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Humanity's special place in the cosmos is one of abandoned claims and moving goalposts.
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Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.
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What is the largest land mammal doing with three times as many neurons as our own species?
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Exclusive homosexuality is not very common in nature.
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There is so much resistance to the idea of animal culture that one cannot escape the impression that it is an idea whose time is come.
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I consider dogmatism a far greater threat than religion per se.
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Food-deprived chickens that were not particularly good at noticing the finer distinctions of a maze task.5
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The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.
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We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
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American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11
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There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.
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War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
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In other words, what is salient to us - such as our own facial features - may not be salient to other species.
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Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.
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People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
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While the matriarch operates on the basis of knowledge, the rest of the herd operates on the basis of trust.
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Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.
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Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
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Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.
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We are born with impulses that draw us to others and that later in life make us care about them.
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If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
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Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.
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This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.
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I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)
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But surely the simplicity of an explanation is no necessary criterion of its truth.17
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Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
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In fact, it has been proposed that absolute neuron count, regardless of brain or body size, best predicts a species' mental powers.61
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If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.
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Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.
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Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet
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Rather than reflecting an immutable human nature, morals are closely tied to the way we organize ourselves.
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One aspect we might focus on during this moratorium is an alternative to overly cerebral approaches.
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Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.
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If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
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In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62)
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There are so many ways to account for negative outcomes that it is safer to doubt one's methods before doubting one's subjects.
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Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
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We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.
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A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.
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Sociobiology, E. O. Wilson
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When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.
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Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
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We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.
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Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.
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Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.
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Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.
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Would we have evolved the same technical skills and intelligence without these supremely versatile appendages?
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Ethology's focus was on behavior that develops naturally in all members of a given species.
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Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.
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The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
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Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.
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There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.
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Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.
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You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
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Charles Darwin himself had written a whole tome about the parallels between human and animal emotional expressions.
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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
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Their earlier poor performance had had more to do with the way they were tested than with their mental powers. Elephants
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There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
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In other words, both macaques and rats volunteer for tests only when they feel confident, suggesting that they know their own knowledge.
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Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key. The
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In the same way that humans have a "handy" intelligence, which we share with other primates, elephants may have a "trunky" one. There
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You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
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Science is not inherently good.
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