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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Any Baptist Believes Biological Different Evolutionary Human Human Qualities Humanity Islam Life Over Perception Qualities Radically Religion Southern Supernatural Traditional Whether

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I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

~Elise Andrew

Topics: Almost Back Biology Came Change Close Day Everyone Evolutionary Exciting First Horror How Know Knowing Lecture Look Not Knowing Our Our World Remember Sat Species Thinking Why World I Remember I Came

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To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.

~Elise Andrew

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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

~Elon Musk

Topics: After Around Been Billion Consciousness Does Evolutionary Four Half Happen How Human Human Consciousness Just Light Little Long Maybe Often Quite Rare Standpoint Very Years

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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

~Ernst Haeckel

Topics: Action Adaptation Arises Both Branches Causal Closest Connection Evolutionary Heredity In My Opinion Laws Opinion Reciprocal Science

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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

~Ernst Mayr

Topics: Change Claim Claimed Does Evolutionary Founder Geneticist Major Most Novelty Occur Rapid Small Species Theory Widespread

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Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

~Ernst Mayr

Topics: Acceleration Any Drastic Evidence Evolutionary Find Genetic Indeed Occurrence Reconstruction Species Unable Whatsoever Widespread

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It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

~Ernst Mayr

Topics: Darwin Evolutionary Me Phenomenon Rates Seems Strictly Vertical

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Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

~Ernst Mayr

Topics: Behavioral Competitive Doomed Ecological Evolutionary Extinction Few Give Improved Innovations Inventions Make May Most Physiological Potential Rapid Species Them

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Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

~Evan Davis

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