“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is:… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of… — Mike Bond Copy Share Image
