Warder Clyde Allee Quotes

• Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Acceptance, Guiding Principles, Important

  "Cooperation among Animals with Human Implications". Book by Warder Clyde Allee, p. 213, 1951.

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• ... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Running, Animal, Men

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• The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Animal, Men, Race

  "The Social Life of Animals". Book by Warder Clyde Allee, Chapter VII: Some Human Implications, 1938.

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