Habits Quote by Peter Godfrey-Smith

“an octopus may have half a billion nerve cells distributed between its brain and its “arms” (a mouse, by comparison, has only 75 to…

— Oliver Sacks

“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique…

— Ian Tattersall

“We, through the cerebral cortex, add the consciousness, spirit and rationality, to this dolphin brained human body avatar. We control our destiny and this…

— Kevin Michel

“the two evolutionary lines, ours and the Neanderthals’, both developed such large brains, and perhaps other characteristics in common, because we exchanged genes.”

— Juan Luis Arsuaga

We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. ……

— Murray Bookchin

“It’s our current exclusivity, not that multi-species past, that is peculiar – and perhaps incriminating. As we will shortly see, we Sapiens have good…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with…

— Arthur Koestler

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They…

— Owsley Stanley

“In all probability there is an infinite variety of mental states that no Sapiens, bat or dinosaur ever experienced in 4 billion years of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If we put aside the self-awareness standard -- and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we happen to…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes can know.…

— Carl Sagan