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The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.
~ Frans de Waal
Evolving
Language
Speaking
Started
Thinking
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The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.
~ Frans de Waal
Affection
Because
Emotions
Ever
Fill
Furry
Give
Homes
Mammals
Offer
Our
People
Reason
Respond
Say
Something
Want
Way
Whole
Will
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There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.
~ Frans de Waal
Art
Beautiful
Care
Done
Examples
Human
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There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.
~ Frans de Waal
Just
Just One
Kindness
Many
Reasons
Religion
Them
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There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.
~ Frans de Waal
Animal
Been
Has-Been
Healthy
Much
Overestimate
Perhaps
Reaction
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There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.
~ Frans de Waal
Actions
Affect
Animals
Directly
Evidence
Judge
Little
Other
Themselves
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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
~ Frans de Waal
Animals
Biology
Humans
Instinct
Long
Long Tradition
Machines
Pure
Thought
Tradition
Western
Whereas
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Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.
~ Frans de Waal
Far
Goal
Need
Religion
Superior
Understanding
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Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.
~ Frans de Waal
Also
Animals
Elephant
Elephants
Exactly
Exactly What
Food
Going
Grasping
Hand
Know
Nose
Only
Organ
Reach
Secondary
Sense
Smell
Sniff
Touch
Unlike
Unparalleled
Use
Vision
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Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.
~ Frans de Waal
Ancient
Brain
Decision
Decision-Making
Involved
Making
Moral
Parts
Very
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Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.
~ Frans de Waal
Ancestors
Biologist
Couple
Current
Eyes
Had
Institutions
Long
Moral
Old
Only
Our
Really
Systems
Thousand
Thousand Years
Very
Which
Years
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War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
~ Frans de Waal
Benefits
Conditions
Costs
Higher
Making
Than
War
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We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
~ Frans de Waal
Actual
Animals
Evolution
Indeed
Motivations
Need
Process
Self-Serving
Separate
Which
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What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions. If we're trying to manipulate or lie, actions in furtherance of individual goals as opposed to the goals of others, blushing would not seem to be helpful. And yet everyone blushes, except the psychopath.
~ Frans de Waal
Actions
Advantage
Blush
Blushing
Emotions
Everyone
Evolutionary
Except
Goals
Helpful
Individual
Inner
Lie
Manipulate
Opposed
Others
Our
Reveal
Seem
Seems
Trying
Value
Would
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When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
~ Frans de Waal
Behave
Blame
Dark
Humans
Innocents
Instinct
Like
Senseless
Slaughter
Some
Warfare
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You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
~ Frans de Waal
About
Designing
Hand
Human
Human Society
Human Species
Know
Much
Should
Society
Species
You
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BirthDate
29 October, 1948
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