{"quotes":[{"text":"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["biology","evidence","evolution","natural-selection","science","sense"],"id":830,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"},{"text":"[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.","author":"Edward O. Wilson","tags":["evolution","natural-selection","struggle","tolerance"],"id":2050,"author_id":"Edward+O.+Wilson"},{"text":"Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection. ","author":"Jerry A. Coyne","tags":["evolution","natural-selection"],"id":4604,"author_id":"Jerry+A.+Coyne"},{"text":"...And specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was up to the task of creating something like him. This was some god’s, somewhere’s, handiwork.","author":"Nicole Williams","tags":["creation","evolution","humor","humour","intelligent-design","natural-selection"],"id":7015,"author_id":"Nicole+Williams"},{"text":"I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don't believe in life after death, channeled chat rooms with the dead, reincarnation, telekinesis or any miracles but the miracle of life and consciousness, which again strike me as miracles in nearly obscene abundance. I believe that the universe abides by the laws of physics, some of which are known, others of which will surely be discovered, but even if they aren't, that will simply be a result, as my colleague George Johnson put it, of our brains having evolved for life on this one little planet and thus being inevitably limited. I'm convinced that the world as we see it was shaped by the again genuinely miraculous, let's even say transcendent, hand of evolution through natural selection.","author":"Natalie Angier","tags":["atheism","atheist","death","evolution","magic","natural-selection","science","universe"],"id":7524,"author_id":"Natalie+Angier"},{"text":"The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased state.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adaptability","adaptation","disease","diseased","diseases","electromagnetic","electromagnetic-radiation","electromagnetic-theory-of-light","electromagnetic-wave","exposure","exposures","genetic","genetic-mutation","genetically-damaged","genetics","human","increasing","natural","natural-selection","progress","progression","progressive","radiation","radiation-effects","reducing","removing","result","results","results","sick","sickened","sickly","sickness","sickness-and-diseases","sickness-of-the-mind","state"],"id":20405,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["evolution","natural-selection"],"id":21486,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.","author":"Francis Maitland Balfour","tags":["biology","embryology","evolution","natural-selection","naturalism","nature","science","successor-to-charles-darwin","survival-of-the-fittest"],"id":21762,"author_id":"Francis+Maitland+Balfour"},{"text":"They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["brutality","civilization","natural-selection","politics","strong","weak"],"id":24817,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"The arms race between [predators] and [prey] is asymmetric, in which success on either side is felt as failure by the other side, but the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is very different. The two sides are 'trying' to do very different things. [Predators] are trying to eat [prey]. [Prey] are not trying to eat [predators], they are trying to avoid being eaten by [predators].From an evolutionary point of view asymmetric arms races are more [likely] to generate highly complex weapons systems.","author":"Richard Dawkins","tags":["arms-race","constructive-evolution","evolution","natural-selection","predation"],"id":41850,"author_id":"Richard+Dawkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}