Evolutionary Psychology Quotes

• Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Four, Human Nature

  "Una comprensión biológica de la naturaleza humana". Entrevista Edge, www.edge.org. 18 de septiembre de 2017.

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• En un futuro lejano veo campos abiertos para investigaciones mucho más importantes. La psicología se basará en un nuevo fundamento, el de la necesaria adquisición de cada poder y capacidad mental por gradación. Se arrojará luz sobre el origen del hombre y su historia.

  Charles Darwin

  Futuro, Ciencia, Hombres

  Charles Darwin (2003). "Sobre el origen de las especies", p.51, Broadview Press

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• The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.

  Steven Pinker

  Numbers, Psychology, Tasks

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.517, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Criticism, Trying

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• Nuestra psicología evolutiva nos precondiciona a no responder a las amenazas que pueden posponerse hasta más tarde.

  Mark Lynas

  Psychology, Climate, Threat

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• Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

  Michael Crichton

  Blind Spots, Medicine, People

  Michael Crichton (2002). "Prey" (Presa)

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• There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to where we get our moral sense and why we value the idea of altruism, and locating both answers in behavioral adaptations for the preservation of our genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Years, Psychology

  Fuente: inters.org

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• La psicología evolutiva nos dice que los hombres, especialmente los poderosos, se sienten invencibles y con derecho a esparcir su semilla, y que las mujeres no pueden resistirse al aroma del poder masculino. Las mujeres, por el contrario, son más altruistas y colaboradoras, y buscan el poder para compartirlo con los demás.

  Hanna Rosin

  Poder, Hombres, Psicología

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• People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success," every damn thing - religion, art - it can all be explained by evolutionary psychology. But in our hearts we know that evolutionary psychology is only sort of accurate, because it really doesn't capture what's most interesting about our lives.

  D. T. Max

  Art, Men, Interesting

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Soy anarquista. Me opongo implacablemente a los sistemas jerárquicos de poder y control. También desconfío de las multitudes, ya que suelen funcionar según su mínimo común denominador. En términos de psicología evolutiva, la multitud se parece mucho a una manada de ñus en estampida.

  Will Self

  Psychology, Crowds, Common

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• Peter Kropotkin era sin duda de izquierdas. Fue uno de los fundadores de lo que hoy se denomina "sociobiología" o "psicología evolutiva" con su libro Ayuda mutua, en el que sostenía que la naturaleza humana había evolucionado de forma favorable al anarquismo comunitario que él propugnaba.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Psychology, Way

  Fuente: libcom.org

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• Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

  Stanton Peele

  Psychology, Essentials, Literature

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• Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.

  Steven Pinker

  Dream, Selfish, Book

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker, 1997.

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