What Bertrand Russell thinks about evolutionary biology

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British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970), also a social critic; co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913), author of The Problems of Philosophy (1912), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.

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1. c. 1930

   Our readingHumans depend on co-operation, and nature has given them, somewhat inadequately, the instincts for the friendliness it needs

   Their wordsMan depends upon co-operation, and has been provided by nature, somewhat inadequately, it is true, with the instinctive apparatus out of which the friendliness required for co-operation can spring.

   ↗The Conquest of Happiness (1930)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book