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Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel where the strongest versions survive.

~Fred Ehrsam

Topics: Allow Biological Evolution Experiments Just Lets Like Multiple Mutations Natural Natural Selection Organisms Parallel Run Selection Strongest Survive Through Us Versions Where Dna

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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

~Friedrich Durrenmatt

Topics: Also Consciousness Defined Development Evolution Grand Human Human Consciousness Human Mind Humans Mind Only Seen Total Wars

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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

~Gary L. Francione

Topics: Absent Characteristics Evolution Humans Inconsistent Mental Proposition Theory Wholly

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The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

~Gary Zukav

Topics: Align Aware Become Changed Choices Cooperation Develop Emotionally Evolution Harmony Life Longer Make Now Our Ourselves Requirements Requires Responsible Reverence Sharing Soul Spiritually Sufficient Survival Us Values

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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

~Gary Zukav

Topics: Ability Become Control Counterproductive Destruction Evolution Good Manipulate Medicine New Now Old Only Our Poisonous Power Produces Pursuit Replacing Understanding Used Violence

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Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

~George Gaylord Simpson

Topics: Against Categories Darwin Evidence Evolution Fact General Gradual Origin Particular Provide Rather Recognized Seemed Then

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The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

~George Gaylord Simpson

Topics: Become Confused Darwinian Distinction Evolution Fact How Must Occurred Opinion Popular Stressed Theory

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We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to take on... to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA, and that's inheritable. And we can see evolution in action as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection not at the DNA level. And we can go off into space.

~George M. Church

Topics: Ability Action Beyond Certain Change Darwinian Environment Evolution Evolve Far Go Ideas Inherit Kind Level Off Our See Selection Sense Space Take Things Undergo Dna

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People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.

~George Smoot

Topics: Aristotle Before Era Evolution Given Origin People Recently Science Since Speculation Time Universe Very Way

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When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

~George Smoot

Topics: Bang Big Big Bang Clear Evolution Fairly Humans Insignificant People Really Sweep Understand Universe Whole Will

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