Biology Quote by Edmund Beecher Wilson

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

— Jean Chretien

“if the past is filled with uncertainty and violent change, if the land you’re standing on was once under the sea, you can be…

— Helena Kelly

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

— Michael Shermer

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and…

— Jill Lepore

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

— Stephen Jay Gould

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

“Their society had been built to fail. Dynasties of power and parties of authority had on retrospect, staged countless renditions of the same play.…

— Rohith S. Katbamna

“The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.”

— Richard J. Borden

“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,…

— Gareth J. Nelson

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

— Dominic Holland

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

— James Redfield