<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Beneath every flattering autobiography waits an... > Beneath every flattering autobiography waits an organism whose ancestors survived an ecological furnace of hunger, predation, mating, displacement, coalition, abandonment, cannibalism, infanticide and death, and survived it not by being good but by being there the next morning. **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Beneath every flattering autobiography waits an organism whose ancestors survived an ecological furnace of hunger, predation, mating, displacement, coalition, abandonment, cannibalism, infanticide and death, and survived it not by being good but by being there the next morning.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-beneath-every-flattering-being-next-morning ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->