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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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While the outputs of intelligence may have changed over time, they continue to grab our attention because together they advertise fitness, and have been maintained across generations through adaptive social selection to ensure humans’ survival.
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
Edward O. Wilson, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
Atkins, Paul W. B.;Wilson, David Sloan.;Hayes, Steven C.; • Prosocial
our evolved drives for affiliation, status, parenting, and mates.
Scott Barry Kaufman • Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility
Some may be predisposed to behaving in this way, others probably discover the effectiveness of such behaviour early in life and once they have done so continue to exploit it.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Neuroticism and Agreeableness.
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Economist Robin Hanson, co-author of the Elephant in the Brain, estimates that as much as 80 per cent of human behaviour boils down to signalling.
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
men who can easily be goaded into action even against their better judgment, and women who are much more calculating and vengeful.