{"quotes":[{"text":"Civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["belief","civilization","conflicts","human-evolution","life","science","untold-lessons","war","woes-of-civilization","woes-of-life"],"id":7274,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.","author":"Henry Fairfield Osborn","tags":["anthropoid","apes","biology","evolution","homo-sapiens","human-evolution","humans","man","primates","relation","science"],"id":8478,"author_id":"Henry+Fairfield+Osborn"},{"text":"A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["advance","cause","create","creativity","genius","human-evolution","humanity","mastery","observation","solutions","think","thinker","wise"],"id":24272,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["human-evolution","intelligence"],"id":38566,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"It is our ultimate purpose to continually evolve as a species both physically and emotionally, as change is the mechanism for growth and development, and if we fear change we stunt our own growth and with it, human evolution.","author":"Kat Lahr","tags":["change","change-the-world","evolution-of-consciousness","evolutionary-enlightenment","evolutionary-process","evolve","evolved-consciousness","fear","growth","growth-and-development","growth-process","human-evolution","human-nature","purpose","species"],"id":45749,"author_id":"Kat+Lahr"},{"text":"The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious about this:smart organisms by and large survive better and leave more offspring than stupid ones.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["evolution","extraterrestrial-lifeial","human-evolution","intelligence"],"id":62806,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of their superior intelligence were able to compete successfully in adulthood with the smaller-brained offspring of mothers with smaller pelvises.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["brain","human-body","human-evolution"],"id":75980,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability. Thus the specialist’s brief for pinpointing brevity is dubious. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which in turn leads to war.","author":"R. Buckminster Fuller","tags":["career-development","communication","human-evolution","social-action","specialization","war"],"id":90767,"author_id":"R.+Buckminster+Fuller"},{"text":"I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.","author":"Henry Fairfield Osborn","tags":["achievements","anthropology","biology","cave-man","character","evolution","human-evolution","science"],"id":99029,"author_id":"Henry+Fairfield+Osborn"},{"text":"Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example, a student can gain a deep insight into the statistics of Mendelian genetics in an hour with the computer rather than spend a year crossing fruit fliesin the laboratory.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["computers","human-evolution","intelligence"],"id":105866,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}