Quotes About Biological imperative

The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes. Alleles (different versions of a gene) that increase the number of offspring become more common over the generations, even if that shortens life and increases suffering. This is not merely theoretical. Half of the human population has been shaped by selection to live fast and die young.

This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

A male on the other hand can never get enough copulations with as many different females as possible: the word excess has no meaning for a male.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.

Why did you have children?' Bertie asked, later in their lives. 'Was it just the biological imperative to breed?' 'That's why everyone has children,' Viola said. 'They just dress it up as something more sentimental.') Viola

The male doesn't eat - it doesn't even have a mouth or an anus - so it does nothing but mate until death.

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

Survival of the fittest was harsh reality. In the animal kingdom it was eat or be eaten.

Señora 4: ¿Se trata de agradar siempre a los hombres? Lupita: No hay otra alternativa, si pensamos que nuestra misión en el mundo es perpetuar la especie.

Genes aren't designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.

I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends.

One day you are very young and then suddenly you are thirty-five and it is Time. You have to reproduce, or else.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

Romance. That seemed silly.... Now-so cheap, mass market-, high-discount. It was temporary insanity caused by the brain. It was a biological trick to ensure the survival of the species.

The organism is driven toward nature's singular goal—conception, the passing on of one's genes—and anything that stands in the way is pushed into the background.

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it.

In many cases, it's a choice. There are many, many human beings through history - millions and millions and millions - who have been both homosexual at times in their lives and then heterosexual, or vice-versa, or bisexual. How can it be a biological imperative if people can change?

Altruism is not a moral or religious ideal, no matter what some people might tell you. It is essential, biological part of who or what we are as a species.

His knee was killing him, was not going to support him for much longer, but of far greater importance seemed the erection shoving against the constriction of his jeans. Biological imperative.