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“Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.”

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Shane MacGowan, born on December 25, 1957, is an influential musician from Ireland. Known for his distinctive voice and creative talent, he has made significant achievements in the punk rock and Irish music genres. more

“The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.”

“If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site.”

Ifs Humans Form Compare Site Sequence Acid Identical Protein Amino Acids

Author:Simon Conway Morris

“The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.”

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Author:Simon Conway Morris

“It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell us things about the world that are not only to our real advantage, but will never be revealed by science.”

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Book:Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe

Source: Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe

“Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.”

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Author:Simon Conway Morris

“I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.”

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Author:Simon Conway Morris

“The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.”

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Author:Simon Conway Morris

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