Biology Quote by E. O. Wilson

“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because they establish…

— Nicholas Wade

“Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in the "Lamarckian" mode - by the inheritance of acquired…

— Anonymous

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human…

— William Irwin Thompson

“Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace that it…

— Matthew Fox

Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we…

— Martin Wolf

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

— Edward T. Hall

It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded…

— Peter Singer

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

— Richard Leakey

“New analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional.”

— Nicholas Wade

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of…

— Konrad Lorenz

“The idea is that human culture as broadly defined--art, politics, technology, religion, and so on--evolves in much the way biological species evolve: new cultural…

— Robert Wright