“Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“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
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
“Homo sapiens doesn’t seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He’s one of the few species that doesn’t limit… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. This… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to… — Stuart J. Russell 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
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty… — Bobby Miller Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
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
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
“O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We have good news and bad news. The good news is that the dismal vision of human sexuality reflected in the standard… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly… — Rosy Cole Copy Share Image
I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“I'm an expert in homo sapiens behavior. They can rationalize anything. Take war. They'll bankrupt their economies, sacrifie the best of their… — Mario Acevedo Copy Share Image
In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
“How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Yet why should individuals care about this evolutionary calculus? Why would any sane person lower his or her standard of living just… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We,… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed.… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways.… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
