| Warder Clyde Allee (5 Jun 1885 - 18 Mar 1955) American zoologist and ecologist who researched the social behaviour, aggregations, and distribution of both land and sea animals. |
“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
The Social Life of Insects, Chapter 7 (1939).
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The Social Life of Insects, Chapter 7 (1939).
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“... the cooperative forces are biologically
the more imporatant 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 ong 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
Where Angels Fear to Tread:
A contribution from general sociology to human ethics
Science, vol 97, 1943, p 521
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Where Angels Fear to Tread:
A contribution from general sociology to human ethics
Science, vol 97, 1943, p 521
(source)
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