Species Quotes

A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revere...

We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pa...

If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do thin...

Pliny suggested that the ostrich, then newly discovered, was the result of a cross between a giraffe...

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

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one aft...

Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was suffic...

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someon...

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of thi...

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds,...

I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch brea...

Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,Classes, by the manner in which t...

It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the st...