For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities. — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward… — Jon Stewart 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
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. — Ingrid Newkirk 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
Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we… — Diane Ackerman 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
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 whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly… — George Wald Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I don't know why people don't paint more warthogs. Warthogs are fantastic. They have the most marvelous faces, like cracked mud with… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front… — Jacob M. Appel 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
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,… — Marge Piercy 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
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,… — Michael Shermer 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
The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices… — Ted Danson 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
I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and… — Donald Griffin Copy Share Image
From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account,… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species,… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
