29 Quotes About Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary biology is the study of how all living organisms have evolved over time. It is the study of the evolution of life on Earth and how it has shaped the course of history. Evolutionary biology is the study of how the genetic and molecular processes in (and by) organisms produce an evolutionary process. It can also be studied in a general context, incorporating concepts from all fields of biology and from other disciplines such as ecology, sociology, and biochemistry Read more

Evolutionary biology includes topics such as: adaptation, adaptationism, biodiversity, cladistics, coevolution, evolution, genetics, paleontology, phylogeny, phylogenetics, population genetics and speciation.

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her...
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Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master. Abhijit Naskar
It takes not a few centuries, or even millenniums, but...
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It takes not a few centuries, or even millenniums, but millions of years for a subtle evolutionary change to become noticeable. Abhijit Naskar
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After the dinosaurs, it is us the humans that have become the dominant species on planet earth. However, unlike the dinosaurs, we have become the rulers of this planet not by ferociousness, but by intelligence, even though we are no less ferociousness than them. Abhijit Naskar
Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and...
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Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive because at this very early stage there is really no difference between primitive man and modern man. Abhijit Naskar
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The lessons of relationship that our primordial ancestors learned are deeply encoded in the genetics of our neurobiological circuits of love. They are present from the moment we are born and activated at puberty by the cocktail of neurochemicals. It’s an elegant synchronized system. At first our brain weighs a potential partner, and if the person fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It’s the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding. Abhijit Naskar
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Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look, you can observe such behavior all around you. The beautiful bird chirping outside your window. It’s a mating call. That pretty little bird is trying to attract a potential mate, so that it can propagate its genes. Why does the peacock have such beautiful feathers? It is to attract a healthy female. He as well is trying to propagate his genes. Even we humans, are not much different from the rest of the animal kingdom when it comes to attracting potential mates. When women dress up for their night out at the club, they are doing so to look attractive. This is a subconscious evolutionary desire to attract as many potential mates as possible.. While women tend to grab attention with their looks, men on the other hand, tend to attract as many potential females as possible, by showing off their resources. When a man shows off with his fancy car, expensive gold watch and suit, or flexes his muscles and brags about how many credit cards he owns, he’s doing so to make himself desirable by healthy women, in order to propagate his genes. It is all in the pursuit of reproduction. . Abhijit Naskar
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Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from an evolutionary standpoint, it all leads to copulation and reproduction, but from the perspective of the individual who has recently fallen head over heels in love with someone, it is mostly about a sensation of warmth and delight, and rarely of sexual nature. Abhijit Naskar
Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a...
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Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation. Abhijit Naskar
Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created...
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Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era. Steven Magee
Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course...
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Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution. Steven Magee
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Fill the world with acid rain clouds and you will be in a new era of evolution, due to the changed electromagnetic frequencies emissions and light emissions from the lightning clouds. A new era of global environmental radiation! Steven Magee
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I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment. Steven Magee
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Diversity is Nature’s stronghold, yet that very diversity has become a curse for an entire species, which is supposedly the most advanced one on its planet. Abhijit Naskar
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When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence. Abhijit Naskar
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Homosexuality is nature’s way of keeping the population in check. Abhijit Naskar
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Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism. Abhijit Naskar
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Survive, survive and survive — these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean. Abhijit Naskar
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We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication. Jack Gilbert
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Things to know from books to read Kip Koehler
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Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature. Abhijit Naskar
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Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil. Abhijit Naskar
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The red lipstick? It's supposed to signal fertility and readiness to mate. Just like the swollen red butt of a baboon. That tight-fitting little dress that shows off your curves? From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, big breasts represent a healthy mate who can feed a lot of offspring. That's why men are programmed to like big tits. When you show off your curves, what you're really doing is advertising to the whole world: "Look at me! I'm a healthy female! I'd be a perfect mate! Come mount me! . Oliver Markus
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The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport. A.E. Samaan
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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
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If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes. Robin A. Weiss
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The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its power every day, contributing crucially to the explanation of planet-sized facts of geology and meteorology, through middle-sized facts of ecology and agronomy, down to the latest microscopic facts of genetic engineering. It unifies all of biology and the history of our planet into a single grand story. Like Gulliver tied down in Lilliput, it is unbudgeable, not because of some one or two huge chains of argument that might—hope against hope—have weak links in them, but because it is securely tied by hundreds of thousands of threads of evidence anchoring it to virtually every other field of knowledge. New discoveries may conceivably lead to dramatic, even 'revolutionary' shifts in the Darwinian theory, but the hope that it will be 'refuted' by some shattering breakthrough is about as reasonable as the hope that we will return to a geocentric vision and discard Copernicus. Daniel C. Dennett
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The outgroup is rocks. Joseph Felsenstein
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The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene Matt Ridley