Quotes About Evolution

One of the most famous aphorisms in science is the British biologist J. B. S. Haldane's answer to the question, What might one conclude about God based on a study of His creation? "An inordinate fondness for beetles.

You take bits off crickets and they grow new parts," Edwards explains in his cheery New Zealand accent. "My interest in this alpine work is that you find creatures growing in habitats where you wouldn't expect anything to be.

When you're through changing, you're through.

When you are through changing, you are through.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Change will come, whether we wish it to or not. To fight it is like fighting the sunrise. Better to say, 'Ah, welcome old friend. Here you are again.

In fact, some theories of language development suggest that humans learned to dance and sing before we could talk, that music was actually the first human language.

Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.

What we call "cuteness" is actually an evolutionary adaptation that helps ensure that parents will care for their children, that babies will get their needs met, and that parents will take on this seemingly thankless task with pleasure.

human beings have been human beings—in this genetic form—for about 250,000 years. And for 99.9 percent of that time, we lived in hunter-gatherer bands of relatively small multifamily groups.

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And with this changed brain, the child can grow up and teach what she has learned

Humankind, more than any other species, can take the accumulated, distilled experiences of previous generations and pass these inventions, beliefs, and skills to the next generation. This is sociocultural evolution.

Ten thousand years ago, humankind had the genetic potential to read a book, yet not one single human on the planet could read; the genetic potential to play the piano existed, yet not one person could play; the genetic potential to dunk a basketball, type a sentence, ride a bicycle—all that potential existed, but it all remained unexpressed.

An autobiographical occasion is any moment when we are encouraged or obliged to reimagine who we are. It's a narrative event, when our existing life story is altered or redirected in some way, forcing us to revisit our preexisting identity and modify it for our life going forward. And nearly everyone goes through such moments.

The messy middle is all about what happens when we're in the state of in between. It involves a complicated alchemy of giving up old ways and experimenting with new ones, moving beyond what's past and beginning to define what's coming. In butterfly-speak, it's cocooning; in hero-speak, it's getting lost.

So here is the bad news and the good news. The story of human life on Earth is yet to be determined. If there is to be an Act V, it will depend on whether we humans are willing to make changes in our individual and collective beliefs and behaviors and whether we are able to make these changes in time.

Nathanielsz is one of the scientists now brave enough to invoke the "L" word for Lamarck: "the transgenerational passage of characteristics by nongenetic means does occur. Lamarck was right, although transgenerational transmission of acquired characteristics occurs by mechanisms that were unknown in his day.

Darwinian focus on the fitness of the individual de-emphasizes the significance of communal cooperation in evolution.

Genetic evolutionists warn that if we fail to apply the lessons of our shared genetic destiny, which should be teaching us the importance of cooperation among all species, we threaten human existence.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.