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Letter "E" » Evolution
«The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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Evolution
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evolution, organ, overshoots, overshot, prehistoric, providing, species, The Brain
«Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles»
Author: James D. Watson
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Evolution,
Principles,
Religion
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adherence, doctrinaire, doctrinaires, evolution, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, minority, objections, reasoning, theory of, theory of evolution
«The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity»
Author: Richard Dawkins
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Evolution
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complexity, cumulative, evolution, explaining, in principle, natural selection, selection, selections, theory of, theory of evolution
«What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope?What but fear winged the birds, and hunger Jewelled with such eyes the great goshawk's head?»
«To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selections, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.»
«Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such fine graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.»
«The goal of evolution is self - conquest»
«The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations»
«The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms»
«While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.»
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