It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
E. O. WilsonOf course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
E. O. WilsonAll three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
E. O. WilsonGenius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.
E. O. WilsonWe exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.
E. O. WilsonOn the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.
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