The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary. — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
“sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Recent studies suggest we are already in a period of extreme disequilibrium. Over the past 10,000 years human evolution has occurred 10-100x… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds.… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Thinking that is not rooted in awareness becomes self-serving and dysfunctional. Cleverness devoid of wisdom is extremely dangerous and destructive. That is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Snakes are the most widely dreamed about, most feared, most religiously significant creature in the world. A squiggle, they are believed to… — Bryan Christy Copy Share Image
“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution. We became too self aware; nature created an aspect of nature… — Rustin Cohle 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
“During most all of human evolution, it was adaptive to conserve energy by being lazy as circumstances permitted. Energy was a vitally… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“You know why there is so-much power outage in the world? Because the humans are unaware of their own electricity, both metaphorically… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens… — John Reader Copy Share Image
“Cancer and the autoimmune diseases of various sorts are, by and large, diseases of civilization. While industrialized society organized along the capitalist… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Many cultural stories worldwide present the domination system as the only human alternative. Fairy tales romanticize the rule of kings and queens… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread. — Damien Fahey Copy Share Image
“Fat—not carbohydrate—is the preferred fuel of human metabolism and has been for all of human evolution. We” — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs… — Steven Raichlen Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
