“Thus evolved some members of the Core—not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The question is, are there useful things that we can do with the results of a genome sequence that would bring benefit?… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“While we advance exponentially in technological capability, our spiritual or 'biological technology,' our maturity as a species, is still two or three… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't… — Theodore Holmes Bullock Copy Share Image
“Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He saw that there is a spectrum of variation between species that comes into being slowly, tiny change by tiny change. He… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Lest anyone dispute that the Bible is not the inspired Word of God but rather the direct and dictated Word of God,… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the… — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Each ribosome had more than fifty different components. If you broke down a slew of them into their separate parts and thoroughly… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Our bones are more gracile than those of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors, our personalities less aggressive, our societies more trusting and cohesive.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more.… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple… — Greg Zeschuk Copy Share Image
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Even if the intelligent design of some structure has been established, it still is a separate question whether a wise, powerful, and… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
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