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• Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the trait of a single species. Rather than seeking to explain why polar bears have fur of a certain thickness, one tries to explain why bears in colder climates have thicker fur than bears in warmer climates. The former problem is hard to solve, since it is hard to say exactly what fur thickness polar bears should have if natural selection guided the evolution of that trait.

  Elliott Sober

  Should Have, Trying, Tests

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they are often okay with the idea that the genealogy of human groups within our species can sometimes be inferred in much the same way as the genealogy of different species.

  Elliott Sober

  Race, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.

  Van Jones

  Alternatives, Fuel, Problem

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse.

  Dale Jamieson

  Class, People, Screw Ups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, Thinking, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Fiction, Lines

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• In fact, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans militarization. Potential adversaries of the US, and even its allies, are so far behind that these countries are very interested in maintaining the treaty. Europe and the rest of the world want a strong reaffirmation of the Treaty and the US is unilaterally trying to derail it. Termination of the treaty would mean that the US could develop satellite weapons, put offensive weapons in space. It would probably mean using nuclear power in space. All of this leads to some very dangerous scenarios, including destruction of the species.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Strong, Mean

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.

  Ron Howard

  Philosophical, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

  Ron Howard

  Guarantees That, Stronger, Planets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.

  Moby

  Issues, Political, Climate

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

  Moby

  Environmental, Doe, Catastrophe

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel like sometimes we have to be a little less inclusive and tolerant if other people's opinions could lead to the destruction of our species.

  Moby

  People, Littles, Opinion

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not be enough" kind of framework of scarcity. Power with is thinking abundantly as opposed to fearfully. Power with is hopefully where we're going - and where we need to go as a species in order to survive.

  Peter Buffett

  Thinking, Order, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.

  Peter Buffett

  Moving, Hard Work, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream up the idea of immortality. Long before that (in evolutionary terms) all species with brains have the survival instinct in some form. So, I am just saying that there are many existent proofs of species that have one, but not the other.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dream, Ideas, Order

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature.

  Noam Chomsky

  Littles, Separation, Surprise

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• The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.

  Laura Huxley

  Preparation, Progress, Important

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Thermonuclear fusion is an absolute requirement, for the preservation of the human species.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Fusion, Requirements, Preservation

  Source: larouchepac.com

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• The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Interesting, Brain, Bigger

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot say that there isn't a lot of knowledge that's been obtained in this field. In the same way, with these complex physical phenomena between solid state physics, you can say a lot of things without necessarily knowing the next step.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Knowing, Retrospect, Way

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.

  John Medina

  Emotional, Years, Elephants

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• My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.

  Van Jones

  Uplifting, Children, Fighting

  Source: pen.org

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• This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Wall, War

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Children, Survival, Adults

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats - the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species - one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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