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Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies QUOTES

Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies QUOTES

1 " For most of history, organized religions have claimed sovereignty over the meaning of human existence. For their founders and leaders the enigma has been relatively easy to solve. The gods put us on Earth, then they told us how to behave. Why should people around the world continue to believe one fantasy over another out of the more than four thousand that exist on Earth? The answer is tribalism, "

― Edward O. Wilson , Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

2 " Natural selection, the driving force of biological evolution in both individual and group selection, is captured in a single phrase: mutation proposes, the environment disposes. "

― Edward O. Wilson , Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies