Quotes About Evolution

One truth that emerges from understanding consciousness in this way is that it makes little sense to assume that individual consciousness evolved first, or that it is the most fundamental form of consciousness.

Dogs are in many ways a human construct. We have co-evolved with them for so long that they are now attuned to human behavior, language, and emotion.

In alligators, the temperature of an egg as it develops determines the sex of its inhabitant: low temperatures create females, high temps make males. The same is true for tortoises, but

Collective consciousness, an evolutionary innovation unlike any other, creates cognitive emergence.

modernity is doing something to us at a deeply fundamental level, and the fact that we don't understand it is alarming.

Even though it is logically obvious that we must accept equilibrium, we are not built to be satisfied with it because being unsatisfied has been an excellent strategy for the last several billion years.

We have arrived in the 21st century with evolutionary baggage, and a fair bit of intellectual confusion. Let us inderstand the baggage, in order to reduce the confusion, and increase our odds of moving forward with maximal human flourishing.

If culture was not paying its way, the genes whose expression it is modifying would either go extinct or evolve to be as immune to culture as an oak tree.

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.

English arrived, they bastardized the name to Key West.

I'd like to tell you it gets easier, but it doesn't. It just gets different.

Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were going - and moved on.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

Parenting is a long lesson in letting go.

Broadening Horizons for Over a Century,

Sometimes, discomfort means we are on the verge of a major turning point or revelation.

I believe we each have the opportunity to undergo thousands of little deaths and rebirths everyday. Each time we do, we free up space to live more fully in tune with who we really are, and to go where we are being called to go.

All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet. Is like this for you and Poppy and everyone. The people who do not understand are change. The people who afraid are change. There is no before and no after because change is what is life. You live in change, in in between.

All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming.

It's your story, sweetheart. Not just your story to pass on. Your story to make up as well. Over time, stories change; they shift; they become something new but with elements of the original and elements of what's to come.

It happens to everyone," she assured Princess Stephanie. "It does?" Stephanie doubted it. "Sure. Everyone's someone else sometimes. Everyone transforms. Maybe not in quite the same way as you, but that's sort of the point. The curse - if you will - it happens to everyone, but not to any two people in the same way. And no one likes it, no matter who's waiting inside.

You learn over lifetimes. You keep try. You will find middle way to be. This life. Next. You find your way.

lots of fish switch genders?" Her parents had no idea. "They switch or they're both. Both at once, or first one then the other. Clown fish all start as boys, but some of them become girls later. Parrot fish are all girls, so then one of them has to become a boy—she changes color and everything—but then if another boy comes along, she might go back to being a girl again.

All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet.