“The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves”. Konrad Lorenz “Nothing exists except atoms and space;… — John Cowie Copy Share Image
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano Copy Share Image
“fact, however, the lesson is just the opposite. The story demonstrates that by humanising animals we usually underestimate animal cognition and ignore… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To avoid a misconception, it must be clarified that a world of steadily increasing wealth by no means ends human competition, and… — Azar Gat Copy Share Image
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“...agriculture and its attending social changes have likely increased selection for traits such as self-control, lower time discounting, and tolerance for routine… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
“After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.” — Richard W. Wrangham Copy Share Image
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“When the car replaced the horse-drawn carriage, we didn’t upgrade the horses – we retired them. Perhaps it is time to do… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Everyone makes mistakes,but some people are so stupid it's hard to fathom their utter stupidity. — Sd Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival,… — Charles Galton Darwin Copy Share Image