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My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of… — Stephen Jay Gould
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist. — Richard Dawkins
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian. — Umberto Eco
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate… — Steven Pinker
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used… — Steven Pinker
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. — E. O. Wilson
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. — Helen Fisher
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. — Richard Dawkins
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to… — William A. Dembski
Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps… — Douglas Coupland
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove… — Victor J. Stenger
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. — W. S. Gilbert
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a… — Stephen Jay Gould
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in… — Stephen Jay Gould
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here. — Richard Dawkins
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not… — Richard Dawkins
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet… — Richard Dawkins
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated… — Richard Dawkins
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to… — Richard Dawkins
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. — Tom Stoppard
The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in… — Martin Rees
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a… — Donald Johanson
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though… — Trofim Lysenko
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a… — Steven Soderbergh
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist — Oscar Wilde

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