“In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity… — Warren G Copy Share Image
Organizations have to come to grips with the fact that tests of adaptive capability aren't always pleasant. Learning can be a powerful… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
