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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be…
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist…
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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual…
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as…
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living…
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein…
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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.
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In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the…
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There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the…
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Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of…
— Trofim Lysenko
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The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a…
— Ernst Mayr
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Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
— Trofim Lysenko
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Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the…
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