Quotes of: Evolutionary Keyword

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 i...

Prey

What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that evolutionary theory shows that it is irrational to believe that God exists; he thinks that the theory has this consequence...

Elliott Sober

Theories without data are like daydreams.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history's inevitable imponderables. We evolutionary biologists ca...

Jerry A. Coyne

My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

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 sel...

John Tyler Bonner

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

Herbert Read

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans are necessarily the culmination of the evolutionary tree. No astronomer could believe this.

Martin Rees

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

Ken Ham

Man is a glorious and unique species of animal. The species originated by evolution.... Future evolution could raise man to superb heights as yet hardly glimpsed, but it will not automatically do so. As far as can now be foreseen, evolutionary degene...

George Gaylord Simpson

Nesse’s research focuses on the evolutionary origins of depression. Why does depression exist at all? If it’s stayed in our gene pool for so long, he argues, there must be some evolutionary benefit. Nesse believes that depression may be an adapti...

Jane McGonigal

So how big an interest have you been taking in the Pilgrimage?’ ‘Big. That idiot Ethan really could trigger the end of the galaxy. I’d have to move.’ ‘How terrible.

The Evolutionary Void