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Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

John Tooby
Adaptation, Individual, Organisms
Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby (1992). “The Adapted mind: evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture”, Oxford University Press, USA

Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.

John Tooby
Fall, Games, Rigs

The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parent cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other.

John Tooby
Daughter, Husband, War

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