Quotes About Evolution

To go beyond yourself, you must first be yourself.

Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It's not how great you start—it's how great you end up.

As Marilyn Monroe said, "Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves.

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

In Mencken's view, "religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress" ("The Ascent of Man").

When we consider the fact that the spectroscope has enabled us to make a chemical analysis of the sun, that the telephone has enabled us to hear 2,000 miles and that the x-rays have enabled us to see through flesh and bone, we must admit without reservation, that our power of perception, at some future day, may be infinite. And if we admit this we must admit the essential possibility of the superman.

Primal myth and modern delusion joined in their assumption that mankind is only one—perhaps the least—of the highly evolved and dominant races of this planet's long and largely unknown career.

The waves from that thing are waking a thousand sleeping senses in us; senses which we inherit from aeons of evolution from the state of detached electrons to the state of organic humanity.

When we came to know the squatters better, we found them curiously likeable in many ways. Simple animals they were, gently descending the evolutionary scale because of their unfortunate ancestry and stultifying isolation.

before the first ancestor of the Piltdown or Neanderthal Man was born.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

In the extreme, fads can arise, spread through, and then disappear from a community in a fraction of a human generation.

Cultures evolve. The culture associated with a community changes over time, moving this way and that, pushed by several forces.

genetic drift, and

Conformity in general is thought to stabilize cultural evolution, although it can also promote rapid change should a new variant cross some threshold of popularity for other reasons.

The renowned biologist and thinker E. O. Wilson calls the study of gene-culture coevolution "one of the great unexplored domains of science.

Humpback song has clearly had its effects on human culture—influencing both our music and whaling practices—but what of our interest in whale culture? These discoveries are particularly important for us because there is only one way large numbers of animals can sing the same song that evolves over periods of time that are much less than an individual's lifetime: culture. Genes

Terrestrial mammals may be ecosystem-controlling "keystone species," like elephants, or ecosystem engineers, like beavers. Well before humans, mammals dominated much of the land. They

This degree of specialization is not expected unless it takes some practice to drive fish well. It is not clear why certain dolphins become specialized like this—they don't obviously seem to get more fish and surely use more energy herding than do their comrades, waiting for their food to arrive.

The ocean covers the majority of planet Earth, contains most of the living world, and is a primary driver of Earth's biosphere. Life evolved in the ocean and continues to evolve there. The

In this scenario, complexity and change may be driven by female choice.83

The characteristics of the dynamics of humpback whale song, evolution at a rather steady rate, with occasional revolutions, match those of human art, music, and literature. In his 1990 book, The Clockwork Muse, Colin Martindale shows that trends over time in human art and music fit with laws derived from what we know of human psychology and the principles of cultural evolution.