Human Evolution Quotes

38 quotes by 35 authors

Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled… — Julian Jaynes
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that… — Paul Berg
Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the… — Will Rogers
What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us. — Peace Pilgrim
We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to… — Jonathan Nolan
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition, — David Buss
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right,… — Franz Kafka
I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution. — Alanis Morissette
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can… — Steven Pinker
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole… — Jerry Saltz
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us… — Albert Hofmann
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them. — Maria Montessori
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. — Robert E. Ornstein
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest… — Greg Graffin
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the grasslands of Africa,… — Terence Smith
Porn should be far less censored and much more publicly accepted than it is, on the grounds that sex is the natural, essential and fundamental… — Steve Fowler

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