Evolutionary Roots Quotes

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.