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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…

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Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some… — Jacques Loeb
Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is… — Thomas Aquinas
Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years. — Marianne Moore
The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than… — Adrian Bejan
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals,… — Thomas Malthus
Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals — Will Durant
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant. — Barbara Kingsolver
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Herbert Read
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. — Jared Diamond
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity. — Yann Martel
Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary… — Herbert Read

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