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• Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.

  E. O. Wilson

  Children, Commitment, Age

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• These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior

  E. O. Wilson

  Animal, Feet, Years

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• Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

  George Iles

  Science, Pay

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

  William Temple

  Science, Done, Creation

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• The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.

  John L. Harper

  Science, Theory Of Evolution, People

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• William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

  Adrian Desmond

  Flower, Ignorance, Science

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• Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

  Ovid

  Fall, Stones, Force

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• It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.

  Nick Matzke

  Years, Months, Realizing

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• We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

  Amit Goswami

  Consciousness, Biology, Species

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• We are at an inflection point in history.

  Joel Garreau

  "Radical Evolution". The Washington Post Article, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2006.

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• The next frontier is our own selves.

  Joel Garreau

  Self, Next, Frontiers

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• Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

  Joel Garreau

  Attitude, Issues, Political

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

  Joel Garreau

  Keys, Might, Creation

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  Joel Garreau

  Race, Becoming, Wells

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life.

  Joel Garreau

  Age, Quality, Golden

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.112, Broadway Books

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• The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

  Joel Garreau

  Art, Engineering, Intellectual

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.114, Broadway Books

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• The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

  Joel Garreau

  Animal, Law, Training

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• Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

  Joel Garreau

  Ideas, Distinguished, Informing

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.154, Broadway Books

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• Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

  Joel Garreau

  Effort, Constant, Humans

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.161, Broadway Books

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• If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

  Joel Garreau

  Caves, World, Dry

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• The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.

  Joel Garreau

  Cancer, Wind, Waiting

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.183, Broadway Books

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• Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact in time-consuming and meaningful ways... You're flitting from one place to another. You're more likely to pursue superficial engagements rather than deep pursuits. It contributes to this certain MTV approach to life where you engage in something for a few minutes and then there's a commercial... You have to get a grip on reality. Unless you know what is real-what is a real friendship and relationship-neither can have an effect on you.

  Joel Garreau

  Meaningful, Running, Real

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• In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

  Joel Garreau

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

  Joel Garreau

  Meaningful, Good Life, Three

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.260, Broadway Books

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• There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.

  Joel Garreau

  Attachment, Bigger, Knows

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