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Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

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We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

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Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

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Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

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At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

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The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term 'meme' for a unit of cultural imitation.

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The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Matt Ridley

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Born: February 7, 1958 (age 67)
Bio: Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley known commonly as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist, businessman and author of popular science books. Since 2013 Ridley has been a Conservative hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
Known for:
  1. The Origins of Virtue (1996)

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