Quotes of: Evolutionary Keyword

What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing...

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

Marc Jacobs

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

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Lawrence M. Krauss

A business reboot is an evolutionary process.

Ctrl+Alt+Believe: Reboot Your Association For Success

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Robin Ince

Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

Dana Goodyear

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

John Maynard Smith

Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals seriously in the first place. The prevailing atti...

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

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

Ernst Mayr

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

James Lovelock

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Julian Baggini

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Steven Pinker

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

Steve Martin

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

Michael Hutchence

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Michael Jordan

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

Lynn Margulis

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

Stephen Bayley

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

Charles Jencks

Gordon Gekko: Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Wall Street

Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perp...

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution