Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The men may also not have known that their notions of beauty and feelings of attraction are deeply hardwired, steered in the… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“...natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Selection has favoured genes that cooperate with others. In the fierce competition for scarce resources, in the relentless struggle to eat other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered… — L. Harrison Matthews Copy Share Image
The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“What to call it - the spark of God? Survival instinct? The souped-up computer of an apex brain evolved from eons in… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Natural beauty, for Darwin, was not just aesthetic; it always reflected function and adaptation at work. Orchids were not just ornamental, to… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“This is direct evidence of evolution. We share so much with our placental mammalian cousins because we all had a common ancestor… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“In giving rise to man, the evolutionary process has, apparently for the first and only time in the history of the Cosmos,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“[Adapted and condensed Valedictorian speech:] I'm going to ask that you seriously consider modeling your life, not in the manner of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I have no press agent I'm a firm believer in natural selection. If enough people think I'm good enough at what I… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
“The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Unlike the traditionally accepted theories of evolution and natural selection, Black’s view stressed that mutations are not accidents; instead, they are the… — E.B. Hudspeth Copy Share Image
Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Genetic programming (GP) is a general optimization technique that is based on Darwin's theories on evolution and natural selection. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer. It doesn't produce the absolute perfection achievable by a designer starting from… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
![“The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do…” quote by L. Harrison Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/l-harrison-matthews-92077_action_the-peppered-moth-experiments-show-the-e_2525577.jpg)
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