“If a gene could build a brain that could tell when copies of itself were sitting in another animal's gonads, it would… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Because of movies we've thought of Neanderthals as being these slightly stupid, thuggish humans and they weren't. They were really well adapted… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think Spotify really does help. If you're going with the evolution of music these days, it's only becoming more and more… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment. — Albrecht Kossel Copy Share Image
“Whereas the food debris of the Neanderthals shows a wide variety of animal bones, suggesting that they took whatever they could find,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“Environment does not cause ADD any more than genes cause ADD. What happens is that if certain genetic material meets a certain… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds.… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation… — Gina Maranto Copy Share Image
“The slower frequencies are dropping away to be replaced by the faster, higher, more refined frequencies that are part of the Energetic… — Elaine Seiler Copy Share Image
God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them,… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do agree with Stich that a quick move from our evolutionary origins to the reliability of our cognitive mechanisms is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.” — Dimitris Xygalatas Copy Share Image
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful… — Serge Nubret Copy Share Image
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