“There is strong geological evidence that the period from 380 million to 365 million years ago is the critical time. The younger… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
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Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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“It is conceivable that an interplay of genes and epigenes coordinates human embryogenesis. Let us return, yet again, to Morgan's problem: the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all… — Sheila Kelley Copy Share Image
Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“DNA directs the construction of strings of chemicals; those chemicals influence the configuration of the whole organism; that configuration influences how likely… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
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This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
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Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
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I've been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has… — Sarah Lacy 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
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Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“The fossil record is always there, whether or not you discover it. The brittle ghosts of the past. Memory is not like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“As Rollin put it in his book The Frankenstein Syndrome, ‘It is simply false that all genetic engineering must harm animals. Unless… — Emily Anthes Copy Share Image
You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery Copy Share Image
“Except for professional athletes, dancers, cowboys, and a few other groups, most people in modern industrial societies have abnormally low energy expenditures.… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
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“Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
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