Sociobiology Quotes

“Beauty is not arbitrary.”

“Sex keeps the parasite guessing.”

“Morality is never based upon nature.”

“Even God cannot make two times two not make four.”

“Power seeking is characteristic of all social mammals.”

“Evolving is not a goal but a means to solving a problem.”

“One of the legacies of being an ape is intergroup violence.”

“In behavior, as in appearance, every human individual is unique.”

“Women cannot increase their fecundity by taking more mates; men can.”

“Differences cannot be appealed to when they suit and denied when they do not.”

“In any case, no moral conclusions of any kind can be drawn from evolution.”

“The longer your generation time, the more genetic mixing you need to combat your parasites.”

“Below the surface of every banality and cliché there lies irony, cynicism, and profundity.”

“Wikipedia: Sociobiology”

“Sociobiology reduces the human to the animal instead of observing how the animal becomes human.”

“Just as human nature is the same everywhere, so it is recognizably the same as it was in the past.”

“There is, therefore, such a thing as a universal human nature, common to all people.”

“And even where I am wrong about human nature, I am not wrong that there is such a nature to be sought.”

“Monogamy, enforced by law, religion, or sanction, does seem to reduce murderous competition between men.”

“When a neo-Darwinian asks, “Why?” he is really asking “How did this come about?” He is a historian.”