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I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.

~Christopher Moore

Topics: About Alpha Basis Evolutionary Hear Lot Males More Much Out Successful Than Think Us You I Think

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One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Animals Become Clearer Confess Done Evolutionary Genetic Genetics Humans Including More Much One Of The Things Our Than Things Through Tree Want Way Worked

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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

~Dana Goodyear

Topics: Advantage Apparently Evolutionary Funny Like Men Perceived Skilled

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The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain each time we learned something new. Across evolutionary history, compulsively seeking information was adaptive behavior.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Across Adaptive Behavior Brain Each Each Time Encountered Evolutionary Evolved History Human Human Brain Information Learned Little Long Mechanism New Rewarding Seeking Shot Something Something New Time Us

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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

~David Attenborough

Topics: About Actually Connect Discovery Evolutionary Extraordinary Find Gaps Increase Link Links Missing Most Need New Other Piece Put Questions Story Suddenly Thing Together Trying You

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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Barely Change Changes Environmental Evolutionary Explosive Geological Happening Incremental Lives Often Our Our Lives Perspectives Register Year

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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

~Deepak Chopra

Topics: Abstraction Constantly Creativity Direction Evolutionary Higher Impulses Meaning Moving Universe

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What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

~Donald Johanson

Topics: About Back Depends Designing Evolutionary Fact Go Human Makes Making Million Million Years Our Path Place Six Stone Talking Tools Upright Us Walking Were Years Years Ago You

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You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

~Donald Johanson

Topics: Evolutionary Flip Human Just Some Somewhere Switch You

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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Been Biology Each Efforts Enough Evolutionary Gratifying Growing Live Long Molecular Other Research See Toward

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