“sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread. — Damien Fahey Copy Share Image
We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“The morgue was the name the human workers gave to this room in the facility. They were careful not to utter it… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to… — Chip Walter Copy Share Image
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example, a student can gain a deep insight… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Be game--take a chance--don't hide behind veils and veils of discretion... Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as… — Robert Henri 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
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the… — Terence Smith Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas 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
“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
“When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak,… — Arthur Koestler 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
“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
“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
“The idea of specific populations predisposed to obesity is encapsulated in a notion now known as the thrifty gene—technically, the thrifty-genotype hypothesis—that… — Gary Taubes 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
“The prefrontal cortex is a complex, fragile region of the brain. In its healthy state, it directs human impulses toward rational choices… — Ron Powers Copy Share Image
“Thirty years later he could not come to any other conclusion: women were indisputably better than men. They were gentler, more affectionate,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“There is a very important lesson for human evolution hidden in figures 9.3 and 12.1. At the cortical level, the three levels… — Gordon M Shepherd 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
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
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