Kin Selection Theory

Famous quotes containing the words kin, selection and/or theory:

“For little boys are rancorous
When robbed of any myth,
And spiteful and cantankerous
To all their kin and kith.
But little girls can draw conclusions
And profit from their lost illusions.”
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

“Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.”
—Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989)

“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)