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On Human Nature (Harvard University Press, 1978)

Edward O. Wilson · c. 1978

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  1. The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.
  2. 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.
  3. The genes hold culture on a leash.
  4. The predisposition to religious belief is the most complex and powerful force in the human mind and in all probability an ineradicable part of human nature.

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