“A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.” PeoplePersonsFormUnderstandingBlackDealsPrinciplesEvolutionEssentialsSkinsMachinesIntelligentEnvironmentalFinalsLimitationMachineryOur EnvironmentReproductionMetallicAnthropic PrincipleIntelligent Machines Author:Frank J. Tipler
“Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.” HumansEarthLawEvolutionSpeciesEnvironmentalAbnormalDiceHuman SpeciesAbnormality Author:E. O. Wilson
“If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.” IfsWayEarthOrderSocialConsciousnessEconomicEvolutionHigherInnovationHarmonyEnvironmentalPatternsFavorsScalesMassiveCollapseInterventionBreakdownConvergenceEnhancement Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.” HumansBrainEvolutionPressurePropertyEnvironmentalInventionNervousRestrictionHuman BrainNervous SystemGenomePlasticity Author:Philippa Perry
“I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our coasts, and another book about evolution. Seasteading captivated me because it incorporates both evolution and environmental restoration.” BookEvolutionEnvironmentalMarine Author:Joe Quirk
“The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze the landscape and cause species compression in the tropics and cause mass species extinction - you know, all these huge changes. In terms of evolution, every species is doomed to eventual extinction. The natural world is constantly changing. So, to deal with "environmental problems," in quotes, totally misses the issue. That is not the way we want to define our problem if we're going to find our solution.” WorldProblemEarthTermNaturalMissingEvolutionSolutionsEnvironmentalNatural World Author:Gordon Hempton
“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.” WinningChangeStruggleEnvironmentStrengthEvolutionSucceedSurvivalEnvironmentalExpensesRivalsAdaptingSurvival Of The FittestTheory Of EvolutionAdapting To ChangeStruggle For Survival Author:Charles Darwin
“Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to organism to population to ecosystem. The second dimension is the diversity of all species in the biosphere. The third dimension is the history of each species in turn, comprising both its genetic evolution and the environmental change that drove the evolution. Biology, by growing in all three dimensions, is progressing toward unification and will continue to do so.” FirstsScienceTurnsThreeLevelsStudyGrowingProgressEvolutionDiversityOrganizationThirdsSpeciesEnvironmentalPopulationCellsDimensionsBiologyOrganismsMoleculesEcosystemsUnificationBiosphereThree DimensionsEnvironmental Change Author:E. O. Wilson
“The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.” MenYearsMayScienceStarsKnownWonderMillionsEvolutionPromiseCivilizationThousandTenCreaturesMiracleEnvironmentalMathematicalHardshipThousand YearsCunningCorpsesRisenUnprecedentedSelectedAdaptabilityRuthlessnessImprobabilityHe Has Risen Author:Robert Ardrey
“The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.” LongScienceNumbersSecretEnvironmentEvolutionEnvironmentalEnormousExtinctionSuccessionAdaptedMutation Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos
“After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led them little by little to the habit of living in the air, first by the water's edge and afterwards on all the dry parts of the globe. These animals have in course of time been profoundly altered by such novel conditions; which so greatly influenced their habits and organs that the regular gradation which they should have exhibited in complexity of organisation is often scarcely recognisable.” ShouldFirstsLittlesDifferentScienceCoursesWaterAnimalNovelEnvironmentAirConditionsEvolutionHabitShould HaveEnvironmentalEdgesComplexityDryOrgansGlobesVariationAlteredOrganisationDifferent Environments Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
“For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.” YearsDifferentAnimalMillionsCenturyPlanetsEvolutionThousandPlantSpeciesEnvironmentalAverageAnimal Rights Book:Last Chance To See Source: Last Chance To See
“Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include, for example, 'How do new structures arise in evolution?' 'Why, given so much environmental change, is stasis so prevalent in evolution as seen in the fossil record?' 'How did one group of organisms or set of macromolecules evolve from another?' The importance of these questions is not at issue; it is just that neo-Darwinians, restricted by their resuppositions, cannot answer them.” LanguageGivenAnswersIssuesRecordsGroupsExampleEvolutionMajorsImportanceStructureEnvironmentalAriseEvolveOrganismsFossilsStasisZoologistEnvironmental Change Book:Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution Source: Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution