“To the extent that we accept this view, we effectively mistake ourselves for highly dimorphic animals such as peacocks or deer.”
Source: The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013), p. 153
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Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
A Declaration of Independence (12 March 1964) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1148
Variant: We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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