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Famous Quotes By Alison Jolly

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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it. — Alison Jolly

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Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the pink sort. He was a big blonde man, with Viking bristle to eyebrows and mustache. — Alison Jolly

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If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself. — Alison Jolly

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Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back. — Alison Jolly

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Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be analysed and partly understood according to the rules of a simpler discipline, but they also present another level of complexity: viruses are living chemicals, and primates are animals who love and hate and think. — Alison Jolly

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We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held. — Alison Jolly