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You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human. — Donald Johanson

Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe. — Deepak Chopra

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

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. — Jared Diamond

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. — John Maynard Smith

The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us. — Beeban Kidron

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

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. — Nancy Pearcey

Colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival. — Carl R. Rogers

From an evolutionary perspective, exercise tricks the brain into trying to maintain itself for survival despite the hormonal cues that it is aging. — John J. Ratey

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior. — Robert Ardrey

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force. — Gloria Steinem

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles. — Kent V. Flannery

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage. — Kenan Malik

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes. — Eckhart Tolle

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

Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking? — Will Wiles

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you. — Deepak Chopra

A text is evolutionary by its very nature. — Reif Larsen

Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood. — Abhijit Naskar

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written — Ronald Fisher

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society. — Marianne Williamson

Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. — Abhijit Naskar

Evolutionarily speaking, love is all about procreation. — Abhijit Naskar

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt ... ," but "If ... then ... else. — Steven Pinker

Christianity is 'developmental' as opposed to 'evolutionary'".

~R. Alan Woods [2011] — R. Alan Woods

The next evolutionary step is into the screen. — Marc Maron

God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When — Greg Iles

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary ... expectations always travel at higher speeds. — John Naisbitt

We are; therefore, we evolve. — Geert Hofstede

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

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time. — Albert Mohler

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside — Thomas Nagel

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. — Richard K. Morgan

The outgroup is rocks. — Joseph Felsenstein

Now I know I am done. Now I know She is done.

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. — Stephen Jay Gould

The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten. — Loren Eiseley

I'm calling for us all to be The Inspired CEO, Conscious Evolutionary Officers of our own lives and businesses. — Tia Walker

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary. — Kathe Kollwitz

As Fuller stated, humanity's next evolutionary challenge is to learn to cooperate and solve our global problems. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later. — Mark Lynas

Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation. — Abhijit Naskar

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it. — Leonard Shlain

Fear, anxiety, stress and panic, all these are basic evolutionary expression of the human brain. They are part of the normal human condition. — Abhijit Naskar

In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now? — Deepak Chopra

Cockroach: What is war?
Man: How we lost the human race. — Anthony Marais

There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine. — Feng Zhang

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable. — Walt Whitman

I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies. — Sasha Grey

Evolution is not humane, but we could be. — William Olkowski

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence ... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould

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

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

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 true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic. — E. O. Wilson

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen

Starting with mice, cats, and going up the evolutionary scale of animals. — Michio Kaku

The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages. — Robert Wright

Come humans, fulfill your evolutionary purpose adn build your hound a fire. Oberon — Kevin Hearne

Things to know from books to read — Kip Koehler

God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring. — Deepak Chopra

Thought leadership is by nature evolutionary, in that it must always be part of an ever-evolving flow. — Pearl Zhu

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies. — Terence McKenna

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? — J.G. Ballard

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework — Carl Woese

Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism. — Abhijit Naskar

Problems are evolutionary drivers. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

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

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. — Aldo Leopold

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish. — Liu Cixin

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation. — R. Buckminster Fuller

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student ... have now been debunked. — D. V. Ager

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

You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary. — Daniel Kahneman

For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force. — Michael Pollan

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

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God. — Marianne Williamson

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become ... — Robert Thurman

Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do through me? — Marc Gafni

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. — Kenneth R. Miller

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys. — Jacob M. Appel

It takes not a few centuries, or even millenniums, but millions of years for a subtle evolutionary change to become noticeable. — Abhijit Naskar

Homosexuality is nature's way of keeping the population in check. — Abhijit Naskar

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge. — Robert Crais

The biological structure of our bodies is not some evolutionary accident. — Nancy Pearcey

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. — Lawrence M. Krauss

A business reboot is an evolutionary process. — Holly Duckworth

From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material. — Bill Bryson

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems. — Terence McKenna

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

I am ... I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Joseph Addison

This one word "Love" has revolutionized the whole planet in an evolutionary way. Without this, none of us might have been born. — Abhijit Naskar

Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue. — Terry Tempest Williams

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly. — Jack Horner

Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules. — Raymond Salvatore Harmon

What bothers me most about evolutionary evidence is that it hinges more on faith than faith does. — Gary Kurz

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident. — Stephen Jay Gould

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either. — Bill Nye