122 Quotes About Evolutionary-psychology

Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish.

Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.

Can you undog a dog back into a wolf?

We are both thinking and feeling animals. The challenge is to know when to activate the cognitive (thinking) versus the affective (feeling) systems.

Emotions such as happiness. fear, lust, disgust, or envy, serve as solutions to recurring evolutionary challenges that our ancestors have faced.

All life began underneath the ocean. So I'm giving people a taste of what existence might have been like before civilization.''But we were amoebas and tiny shrimplike creatures. We didn't start off in deep-sea-diving outfits.''We all come into this world with an oxygen tube in our belly button.''True.'She put her hands up to her own belly. There had so recently been a sea creature evolving in there, trying its best to get its act together. It had perished under the deep, deep, deep sea.

When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.

Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.

Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors.