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“To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.”

Humans Evolution Track Parallels Lineage

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.”

Doe Environment Evolution Track Halt Changing Environment

Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.”

Ifs Want Should Firsts Littles Rights Revolution Evolution Track Womens Rights Little Women

Book:Socialism: With Preludes on Current Events

Source: Socialism: With Preludes on Current Events

“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order to give us an experience - an experience of looking for something and then finding ourselves in a different place by the time we've finished our journey.”

Giving Mind Humans Different Order Consciousness Journey Evolution Findings Track Finished Human Mind Essays Different Place

Author:John D'Agata

“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.”

Mind Humans Evolution Track Human Mind Essays

Author:John D'Agata

“Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.”

Ideas Consciousness Share Evolution Behavior Institutions Track Objectives Primaries Manipulation Herds Freeze Suppression Benign Propensity Disruptive Standardization

Author:Tom Robbins

“Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.”

Believe Would Be Order Bits Rocks Evolution Track Fossils Mislead Duality Right Track Evolution Of Life

Author:Stephen Hawking

“There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.”

Men World Wells May Sometimes Moving Evil Belief Return Evolution Shadow Track Awful Twilight Sacraments Caves Dwellers Unknown Worlds

Book:The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen

Source: The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen