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As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.
I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.
I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
Hopefully, some supervillain threat will come down, and we will have to unite as a species and fire our nukes into the sun or something.
My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.
Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.
When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
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.
War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.
We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve with them.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.