Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all,… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions,… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Society's only real 'progressives' are the deviants and mutants. Look at evolution - fish who didn't deviate never became amphibians; frogs who… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad. — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never… — David Brin Copy Share Image
