Evolutionary Biology Quotes

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.

Homosexuality is nature’s way of keeping the population in check.

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

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.

Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.

Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era.

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

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.