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[L]asting love is something a person has to to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will. . . . This isn't ...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals seriously in the first place. The prevailing atti...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose. The claim is that the new paradigm can actually influence — legitimately — our choice of basic values in the first pl...

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology