122 Quotes About Evolutionary-psychology

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

It's not the passion that unites, rather its the vulnerabilities that bind Us!” 

Anthropologist Donald Symons is as amazed as we are at frequent attempts to argue that monogamous gibbons could serve as viable models for human sexuality, writing, "Talk of why (or whether) humans pair bond like gibbons strikes me as belonging to the same realm of discourse as talk of why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings.

Self is an illusory by-product of the brain's response to the environment, with the purpose of survival of life. However, within the subjective realm of the human mind, due to higher brain capacities, the self is capable of creating its own illusory purpose, in an attempt to provide meaning in life.

We have many instincts that used to be useful thousands of years ago, but we live in a very different world now.

Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal.

Why do women spend so much time in talking to their female peers? The answer can again be found in the process of biological evolution of the human mind. Just like the evolutionary expression of aggression in men, gossiping is an evolutionary feature of the female psychology. Women trade various secrets from their personal experiences through gossiping in order to create connection and intimacy with their female peers.

In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.

Of all the animals on earth, only the human is born with the capacity to conquer its animal nature.