Change Quote by Ray Kurzweil

It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one…

— Steven Pinker

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

— Howard Hughes

“In Africa by 1.2 million years ago the brains of Homo rhodesiense had grown to within 6 per cent of the volume of modern…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve…

— David Abram

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections…

— Stanislaw Ulam

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain.”

— Deepak Chopra

“We walk through another part of the building. While we wait for an elevator, Dr. Kenyon unfolds a dinner-size napkin and holds it up…

— Annie Jacobsen

“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

“To compare the rate of progress of the biological evolution of intelligence to that of technological evolution, consider that the most advanced mammals have…

— Ray Kurzweil

“...but there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished…

— Loren Eiseley

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our…

— Stephen Jay Gould