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'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'

~Diana Gabaldon

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The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?

~Donald Johanson

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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

~E. O. Wilson

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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

~Edgar Wright

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I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.

~Edgar Wright

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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

~Edgar Wright

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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

~Ellen Key

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For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

~Ellsworth Huntington

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Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

~Ellsworth Huntington

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One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'

~Elvis Mitchell

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