New analyses of the human genome establish that human…

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The…

— Frans de Waal

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I…

— Richard Dawkins

“The envisaged self is the next stage in human evolution, and it will be born explicitly from the refusion of experienced spirit and experienced…

— Monica Sjöö

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising…

— Maria Montessori

“I beg you to see this in the right light, and to combine it with the feeling about what happened through the Mystery of…

— Rudolf Steiner

“In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and…

— Urantia Foundation

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by…

— Sun Yat-sen

“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

— Damien Fahey

“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe that they…

— Franklin Foer

The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out…

— William Gibson

“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act…

— Maryanne Wolf

There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the…

— Jonathan Haidt