If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and... sons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker... into the game?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until w...e can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them bo...th opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and bi...ology a third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family ta...kes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To de-animalize human mentality, to purge it of obsolete evolutionary characteristics, in particular of death,... which foreknowledge terrorizes the contents of skulls with, is the fundamental project of technology;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving t...oward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not menstrual blood per se which disturbs the imagination--unstanchable as that red flood may be--but rather the albumen in ...the blood, the uterine shreds, placental jellyfish of the female sea. This is the chthonian matrix from which we rose. We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, our site of biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »