Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these… — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
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