When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique way; and some of our newer brain components talk to each other via some very ancient… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.” — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History.… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up.… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols,… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
