Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered th...em, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined... perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not onl...y by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years' life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections....... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being... and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is now well known that women are biologically somewhat less lateralized in brain function than men. This means simply that psyc...hological functions in women are not localized into one or the other hemisphere of the brain to the same degree as in men. Mental abilities in women are more spread over both hemispheres. Even by age six, for example, a boy can recognize objects in his left hand by feel alone better than in his right hand. In girls both hands are equal. This shows that haptic recognition (as it is called) has already been primarily localized in the right hemisphere in boys but not in girls. And it is common knowledge that elderly men with a stroke or hemorrhage in the left hemisphere are more speechless than elderly women with a similar diagnosis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children are as destined biologically to break away as we are, emotionally, to hold on and protect. But thinking independently com...es of acting independently. It begins with a two-year-old doggedly pulling on flannel pajamas during a July heat wave and with parents accepting that the impulse is a good one. When we let go of these small tasks without anger or sorrow but with pleasure and pride we give each act of independence our blessing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the stereotypes of parenthood, one of the most destructive is the assumption that all mothers are cut out for Donna Reed ki...nd of maternal love and that fathers are biologically incapable of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »