"Our understanding of the stability in attachment during the first two decades of life is limited...I found little support for an early-formed prototype being responsible for stability. In sum, there was little continuity in attachment from childhood to adolescence"
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"To assume that children are fashioned in such a way that their adult behavior is contingent on their experiences with their parents in the first few years of life is not just to underrate them but to underrate evolution itself."

"The modern nature-nurture debate has been boiled down to a sterile empirical question about whether "genes" or "environment" are more important for the explanation of human differences. For almost any trait that people care about, that question has no interesting answer."

"John [...] thought awakening people to [the social dynamics created by our coalitional psychology] might help us—humanity—avoid some of the terrible suffering our coalitional instincts cause. Unfortunately, he ran out of time."

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