“If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“sociobiologists are not merely willing, but devoted, "Slaves of the Gene."" They believe that an organism-a man, say-is epiphenomenal to his genes:… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
“The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the first major evolution in the terrorist threat emerged in the form of the homegrown violent extremist - the individual in… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
“If someone drowned at sea a couple of hundred years ago they’d either start to decompose immediately or they’d get eaten by… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self esteem, then get used to the idea that you are… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“The Neanderthals were a proto-species, an embryonic light that flickered in evolutionary time, but was not strong enough to stand across epochs.” — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from… — Philip Nelson Copy Share Image
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
“You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“If our early ancestors hadn’t developed a way to use ketones for energy, our species would have ended up on Darwin’s short… — Eric Westman MD Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
We now know that the structure of the DNA in humans and chimpanzees differs by only just over one percent. You could… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The logic behind these initiations provides an efficient solution to a pressing cooperation dilemma: in order for a group to survive, it… — Dimitris Xygalatas Copy Share Image
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species,… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
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