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Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever. -- Robert Nozick
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others. -- Hanna Rosin
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. -- Steven Pinker
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. -- Richard K. Morgan
Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design. -- Bela H. Banathy
The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest. -- Bill Nye
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities. -- Ben Bernanke
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population. -- John Maynard Smith
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation. -- Daniel Goleman
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible. -- Ambrose Bierce
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate group selection, even if they do not use the g-word. -- Elliott Sober
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes. -- Steven Pinker
Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in which the contrary would be true, and empirical evidence, though it exists, has little bearing on real situations. -- Noam Chomsky
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the wing an evolved organ for flying, so the brain is a collection of organs (or 'modules') for dealing with a set of specialist data-processing needs. -- Richard Dawkins
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived. -- Jo Nesbo
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists have opened the black boxes and seen what is inside, they know the Darwinian theory is just a story, not a scientific explanation. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. -- Steve Martin
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. -- Deepak Chopra
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. -- James Lovelock
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. -- Warren Farrell
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. -- Noam Chomsky
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction. -- Robert Nozick
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
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. -- Bjarke Ingels
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
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. -- Jonathan Sacks
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. -- Jonathan Sacks
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines. -- Nancy Pearcey
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. -- John Polkinghorne
Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me. -- Tracy McMillan
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. -- Stephen Jay Gould
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time. -- Bo Burnham
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway. -- Louise L. Hay
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals, it fits perfectly. But we cannot assume that all evolutionary steps arise from selection, particularly when looking at smaller animals. -- John Tyler Bonner
Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be. -- Marc Jacobs
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. -- Jane Goodall
We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way. -- Buzz Aldrin
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Problems are evolutionary drivers. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Pain is not an evolutionary error. -- Mathis Wackernagel
Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge. -- Robert Crais
Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory. -- Elliott Sober
The next evolutionary step is into the screen. -- Marc Maron
A text is evolutionary by its very nature. -- Reif Larsen
Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe. -- Deepak Chopra
Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. -- Aldo Leopold
Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly. -- Jack Horner
In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it. -- Sharon Moalem
The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene -- Matt Ridley
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident. -- Stephen Jay Gould
What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior. -- Robert Ardrey
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind. -- Eckhart Tolle
Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted. -- Noam Chomsky
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. -- John Maynard Smith
There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage. -- Kenan Malik
I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary. -- Kathe Kollwitz
The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have. -- E. O. Wilson
Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written -- Ronald Fisher
You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland! -- J.R. Ward
Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet. -- George Leonard
Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds. -- John Naisbitt
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force. -- Alex Grey
Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside -- Thomas Nagel
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. -- Dana Goodyear
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. -- Kenneth R. Miller
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory -- Kenneth R. Miller
I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies. -- Sasha Grey
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. -- Robin Ince
The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all. -- Peter Medawar
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural. -- Julian Baggini
I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era. -- Michael Jordan
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. -- Stephen Jay Gould
For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst. -- Robert Ardrey
You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart, -- Jay London
Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time. -- Marc Jacobs
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature... -- Stanton Peele
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time. -- David M. Raup
By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you. -- Deepak Chopra
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic. -- E. O. Wilson
Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. -- Mark Lynas
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term "?meme' for a unit of cultural imitation. -- Matt Ridley
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood. -- Alison Gopnik
I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible. -- Elliott Sober
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm. -- Charles Jencks
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force. -- Gloria Steinem
It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.... -- Nick Matzke
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. -- Ernst Mayr
The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles. -- Kent V. Flannery
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. -- Jared Diamond
If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. -- Richard Dawkins
You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time. -- Albert Mohler
God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring. -- Deepak Chopra
For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable. -- Walt Whitman
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes. -- Teju Cole
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human. -- Donald Johanson
To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me." -- Simon Boswell
Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking? -- Will Wiles
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. -- Vernor Vinge
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies. -- Terence McKenna
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist. -- Michael Hutchence
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist -- Michael Hutchence
The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework -- Carl Woese
The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress. -- Isaac Asimov
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked. -- D. V. Ager
The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us. -- Beeban Kidron
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. -- David Quammen

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