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Quotes from Sociobiology: The New Synthesis — E. O. Wilson

1929–2021 United States

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The key to the sociobiology of mammals is milk.

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)

Samuel Butler's famous aphorism that the chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg has been modernized: the organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA.

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)

In the process of natural selection, then. any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)

Scientists and humanists should consider together the possibility that the time has come for ethics to be removed temporarily from the hands of philosophers and biologized.

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)

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