Human-evolution Quotes

The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts,...

It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptan...

Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of sligh...

Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the...

a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucle...

What functions do dreams serve today? One view, published in a reputable scientific paper, holds tha...

This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of pla...

with rare exceptions (chiefly the social insects), mammals and birds are the only organisms to devot...

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically...

Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of t...

It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, s...

When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovat...

And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear th...

The time scale for evolutionary or genetic change is very long. A characteristic period for the emer...

It is very difficult to evolve by altering the deep fabric of life; any change there is likely to be...

The time scale for evolutionary or genetic change is very long. A characteristic period for the emer...

Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example...

In addition, human beings have, in the most recent few tenths of a percent of our existence, invente...

Washburn has reported that infant baboons and other young primates appear to be born with only three...

MacLean has shown that the R-complex plays an important role in aggressive behavior, territoriality,...

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based ...

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other s...

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man...

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestr...

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...

When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probab...