Evolutionary Quotes

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth. Seth Shostak
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Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. Stephen Jay Gould
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What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. Stephen Jay Gould
Time Natural Biology Other Evolutionary Has-Been About Selection Major Odd Been Discovering Natural Selection Mechanisms Each Fundamentalist Adaptation
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?' Steven Pinker
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Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within limits, an important component of a civilization that finally must learn how to maintain the integrity of its only biosphere. Vaclav Smil
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. Vernor Vinge
Competition Light Evolutionary Baggage Deadly Makes Years Regard Us Humans Millions Millions Of Years
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. Warren Farrell
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Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary. Wolfgang Tillmans
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Tribalism, after all, is part of our evolutionary DNA. The need to identify with a group, to belong and commune with like-minded people is not only biological, it's what has helped motivate our desire for and devotion to all kinds of important cultural institutions, from organized religion to sports fandom. S.E. Cupp
Religion Sports People Important Group Our Evolutionary Kinds Only DNA Part Institutions Identify Devotion Motivate Cultural After Commune Organized Organized Religion Helped Biological Belong Desire Need
Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want a cure for cancer,' but that doesn't tell you what evolutionary pathway will take you from here to there. What are the intermediate steps? Frances Arnold
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Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins? Frances Arnold
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Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. Noam Chomsky
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