Quotes About Evolution

They were burying the past, or as much of it as they could part with.

Having undergone that disintegration and dying of past individuals and rebirth into something vastly more powerful, all these creatures had joined millions of years before into its own early Gravemind, far more than the sum of its parts.

Until now, the densest single unit of information processing on this planet was the human brain

People come together and move apart. It's the age-old ebb and flow of relationships. Some are shorter journeys, and others were meant for a lifetime. That goes for friendships as well. We

into another identity. And I

But what refuses to leave my mind is the image of Drew and Kate making love before the camera. Mia viewed that photograph with me and felt no embarrassment at all. On the contrary, she wants to experience the same intensity she saw there with me. More than that, she's telling me beforehand that I'll have no obligation to her. Evolutionary nirvana, Caitlin called it. God, was she right.

American history is punctuated by watershed moments, fulcrum points that separate one sense of ourselves (as a nation) from another.

I know things are changing, but they don't change everywhere at the same speed. Down here time moves on the different clock. Down here it's still forty years ago, in some ways.

God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When

Brother Horse spread five fingers in the wind. 'Thus the tree grows,' he quoted, 'and each new branch, as a new tree. Nothing is unchanging, least of all the ways of people.

Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier—we can care deeply, selflessly for people we know, but our empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.

Newton's Third Law To move forward, we have to leave something behind.

Russia's most prominent military scientist noted that Desert Storm showed that terms like "front lines" and "flanks," and the idea that winning a war means occupying enemy territory, were no longer relevant.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Facebook'?" he asks. "Seriously? Now we're using that piece of self-absorbed crap as an investigative tool? What's wrong with your generation?" "Nothing that we can't fix once your generation is gone.

I've never felt like this before. I'm a snake shedding my skin. A pupa hatching into a butterfly.

Greta worked her way toward the back, skipping past racks and stacks of records marked with the year. One after another. It was as if she were going back in time, getting younger as she went and heading toward the girl she'd been back then. Young. Impressionable. A follower. The spark of memories made her shake her head. She'd come so far since then.

Disagreements over the interpretation of Genesis 1 are not new. Early church fathers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Augustine wrestled with this issue hundreds of years ago. However, the debate within Christian circles over the age of creation has intensified during the last 150 years, largely in response to the Darwinian theory of evolution.

There is a quasi-scientific fable that if you can get a frog to sit quietly in a saucepan of cold water, and if you then raise the temperature of the water very slowly and smoothly so that there is no moment marked to be the moment at which the frog should jump, he will never jump. He will get boiled. Is the human species changing its own environment with slowly increasing pollution and rotting its mind with slowly deteriorating religion and education in such a saucepan?

They must have evolved for running. Their minds were shaped by the two-dimensional frame of reckoning ground-bound minds know.

It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before.

Denisovans, Neanderthals, more. Trial balloons of biology.

Rachel thought about the many bottlenecks humanity had passed through—genetic squeezes of drought, predation, hardship—all forcing selection upward.

Peterson remembered with a smile that the US Department of the Interior had made a thorough prediction of trends in 1937, and had missed atomic energy, computers, radar, antibiotics, and World War II. Yet they all kept on, with this simple-minded linear extrapolation that was, despite a bank of computers to refine the numbers, still merely a new way to be stupid in an expensive fashion.