Believe Quote by Steven Pinker

It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health…

— Harold Innis

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

— Steven Pinker

One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health…

— Juan Enriquez

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

— Steven Pinker

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

— Charles Darwin

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as…

— Vernor Vinge

“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no mystery about…

— Richard Dawkins

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

— Charles Darwin

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is…

— Charles Darwin

Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps…

— Jesse Bering

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"…

— Stephen Jay Gould