Top 1200 Evolutionary Psychology Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

Children?have no use for psychology.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

My psychology belongs to everyone.

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

The psychology of the saver and the psychology of the investor is very closely connected with Keynes' distinction between risk and uncertainty. When the future is uncertain, he thought that a lot of saving would be directed towards securing, securing more, getting more security in the present, rather than building wealth in the future, which was the classical view, you save in order to invest, in order to consume more later on. What he had called the propensity to hoard or liquidity preference would normally be stronger than the inducement to invest.

I studied psychology at university.

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

I don't believe in psychology.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.

If you look at my body of work, which is not very big, really, it took an evolutionary leap with 'The Zookeeper's Wife'.

I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.

Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

We still don't know what evolutionary significance to attach to it, but it is at the very least interesting that a telomere gene is related to obesity.

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. The analysis is actually the easy part. The economics, the valuation of the business isn't that hard. The psychology - how much do you buy, do you buy it at this price, do you wait for a lower price, what do you do when it looks like the world might end - those things are harder. Knowing whether you stand there, buy more, or whether something has legitimately gone wrong and you need to sell, those are harder things. That you learn with experience, by having the right psychological makeup.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

I've never studied psychology.

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework

There is a psychology of Bombay.

Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.