"The one thing animal populations do not do is go on increasing indefinitely."

In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride; disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself. For even when you conceive

"There is no need for altruistic restraint in the birth rate because there is no welfare state in nature. Any gene for over-indulgence is promptly punished."

"Any altruistic system is inherently unstable because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it."

"The sex cells or 'gametes' of males are much smaller and more numerous than the gametes of females. This is true whether we are dealing with animals or plants. One group of individuals has large sex cells, and it is convenient to use the word female for them."

"Man's way of life is largely determined by culture rather than by genes."

Congratulations to Barbados, MY HOME, on our 59th year of Independence and our 4th year as a Republic! Today also marks the installation of our 2nd President, His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel The Most Honorable Jeffrey Bostic, who alongside our Honorable Prime Minister Mia

Instead of asking “Why did this happen to me?” Try asking “What can I learn from it?”

"True warfare in which large rival armies fight to the death is known only in man and in social insects."

"...viruses may be genes who have broken loose from 'colonies' such as ourselves." Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene.

"It's possible that man's swollen brain, and his predisposition to reason mathematically, evolved as a mechanism of ever more devious cheating, and ever more penetrating detection of cheating in others."

"What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment? The survival value of the god meme in the meme pool results from its great psychological appeal."

"Some memes, like some genes, achieve brilliant short-term success in spreading rapidly, but do not last long in the meme pool. Popular songs and stiletto heels are examples."

"Another member of the religious meme complex is called faith. It means blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence. The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so much that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in

"We should not seek immortality in reproduction."

"Selection cannot produce adaptations unless there are hereditary differences among which to select."

"All that genes can really influence directly is protein synthesis. A gene's influence upon a nervous system is always indirect."

"A parasite whose genes aspire to the same destiny as the genes of its host shares all the interests of its host and will eventually cease to act parasitically."

"A man can be aroused, even to erection, by a printed photograph of a woman's. He is not 'fooled' into thinking that the pattern of printing ink really is a woman. He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper, yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as

"The rabbit runs faster than the fox because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner."