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The brain exists because it promotes the survival and multiplication of the genes that build it
Drawn from what Edward O. Wilson said
What Edward O. Wilson actually said
- Edward O. Wilson Biologist (1929 to 2021), founder of sociobiology
The essence of the argument, then, is that the brain exists because it promotes the survival and multiplication of the genes that direct its assembly.
Where this was said
↗On Human Nature (Harvard University Press, 1978)archive.org
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