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The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. -- John Maynard Smith
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
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street. -- Paul Davies
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
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. -- Stephen Jay Gould
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times! -- Steven Pinker
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing. -- Michael Crichton
I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible. -- Elliott Sober
The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us. -- Beeban Kidron
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well. -- Elliott Sober
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter. -- Elliott Sober
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former. -- Elliott Sober
This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it claims that God created life on earth within the past 10,000 to 50,000 years. But other types of theism are different. -- Elliott Sober
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
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. -- Elliott Sober
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them. -- Eugenie Scott

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