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Evolution Quotes by Richard Leakey
- My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
- Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of…
- Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,…
- It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this…
- For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and…
- To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today,…
More Evolution Quotes
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental… — Ernst Haeckel
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as… — Unknown Author
- We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot… — ZhatsPrincess