Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.
A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
Susan Orlean: What I came to understand is that change is not a choice. Not for a species of plant, and not for me.
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of th...
Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, o...
The starting point of 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species which morphologists for the most part rightly neglect. The first condition necessary, in order that any proce...
What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.
Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.
For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
What I came to understand is that change is not a choice, not for a species of plant, not for me. It happens, and you are different.
