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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
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Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was…
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It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
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In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or…
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Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…
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It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
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For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These…
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Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with.…
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
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Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated…
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Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
— Karen Armstrong
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is…
— Brandon Boyd
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
— Ben Whishaw
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not…
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
— Antonio Porchia
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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
— Richard Leakey
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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is…
— Isabella Beeton
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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but…
— Clarice Lispector
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some…
— Plutarch
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The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.
— Victor LaValle
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be…
— J M Coetzee
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