Mark Pagel We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others. – Mark Pagel Arms Quotes Brains Quotes Conflicts Quotes Engaged Quotes Inventiveness Quotes Manipulating Quotes Minds Quotes Owe Quotes Race Quotes Social Quotes Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We’ve got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can’t be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren’t very different from other animals. Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
Barton Gellman I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn’t much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click ‘agree.’ – Barton Gellman
David Moyes With Marouane’s hair, I actually wondered if it might take a bit of the pace off the ball when he went up for a header. But I soon realised it was part of his personality. Part of who he is. – David Moyes
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