The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
“In many species, males pay for sex. For example, among black ticked hanging flies, an amorous male will present a female with… — Steve Stewart-Williams Copy Share Image
“True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no… — Fredric Brown 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
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The genes supply the motivation for warfare, [E. O.] Wilson is saying, in humans as they do in chimps, but people, blessed… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The fact that you came from a very beautiful worm demonstrate that, evolution is more romantic than scientific. Thus, it arouses the… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Evolution is all about turning "bugs" into "features", turning "noise" into "signal", and the fuzzy boundaries between these categories are not optional;… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
