Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different...

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

We started to have more women and little girls in our audience, where it started to be 40 percent female that sat in our live audience. So I think, when that was happening and the women were stepping...

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and ensure her survival.

It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was...

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid...

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but...

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical...

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

I think football is evolving, and I think the role of the keeper is becoming more and more important in the game in general.

I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely...

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the...

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.