Evolution Quotes
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Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
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Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
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We inherit a lot from our parents: mom's eyes, dad's chin, and the attitude of whichever parent isn't punishing you at the moment. All of those things we have our mom's to thank for."If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
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250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin.
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The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
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It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.
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The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
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The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
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Evolution is a way of understanding the world that continues to hold up day after day to scientific tests.
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In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
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Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
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Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.
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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
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Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.
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I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.
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The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.
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Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
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As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.
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Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.
