“The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.” DoeTheoryMajorsClaimsSpeciesPopulationFoundersRapidsNovelty Book:Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist Source: Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist
“Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.” PeopleIfsWellsTwoRealCausesDifferencesPovertyMajorsOvercomingMiseryPopulationCorruptionAidsBarriersCyclesScourgeCauses Of Poverty Author:Peter Eigen
“Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave NO LEGIBLE FOSSIL RECORD.” RecordsHigherMajorsSpeciesPopulationEvolveTransitionFossils Author:Steven M. Stanley
“By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.” CitiesSupportMajorsPopulationCustomersDisappearSuburbsBookstoresDowntownDensityRetailersPopulation Density Author:Jason Epstein
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.” IfsHumansLongWarGrowthTermSeriousDiseaseMajorsSurvivalIncreaseThreatPopulationDisasterLong TermControlledStarvationPopulation GrowthHuman Population Author:Prince Philip
“We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.” FactsUseCausesGrowthOughtMajorsPopulationShirtsGlobal WarmingT ShirtCondomPopulation Growth Author:Mechai Viravaidya
“A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?” ThinkingChildrenStatesReasonFactsShowsProblemSeemsMightUnitedCitiesWonderUnited StatesStudyShareCoupleMajorsPopulationOddSmallestSan FranciscoRiceReproducing Author:Jay Leno
“And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.” ThinkingAttitudeOpinionInformationMajorsPopulationAdministrationPostsWheelsMentalityRepresentativesAccustomedPublic OpinionSecrecyAccommodateSqueaky Wheel Author:Ted Gup
“There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.” MadeSchoolSocialEffortSecurityOfficeBenefitsMajorsPopulationPostsSocial SecurityPublic SchoolSurrealPost OfficePostal Service Author:Noam Chomsky
“Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.” StatesBigsGovernmentTodayHalfMajorsPopulationIncome Author:John Stossel
“The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.” WellsMotherThreeMajorsPopulationDestroyingGoddessEntityEasternFertility Author:Sigmund Freud
“You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling” PeopleMajorsPopulationGamblingHookedCasinos Author:John Warren Kindt
“On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.” NeedsProblemHandsCompanyCuttingGrowingHugeMajorsTreatsCrisisPopulationJailHookPharmaceuticalNarcoticsPharmaceutical CompaniesMoralizing Author:Anthony Bourdain
“The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.” WorldKindTwoWarStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyMajorsUnionsWorkersPopulationScalesEnormousAll KindsPropagandaWar Of The WorldsTargetFactoriesOffensiveInterventionScholarshipSecond World WarTakeoversGovernment Intervention Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.” ThinkingWorldKindRealReasonHelpingHumanityCan DoMajorsConcernNegativeImpactPopulationExpandingArmament Author:Amartya Sen
“I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year it's going to be true. With the rising populations, Yemen could be the first country in the world, or Sana'a the first major city in the world, to run out of water, that's from Yemeni hydrological engineers and the United Nations. Sooner or later, all of these people, from 7 to 9 billion, all of them want to live like America, will be consuming so much more water that some of the societies will hit a wall without more sustainable environmental practices.” PeopleWorldWantYearsFirstsLittlesHas BeensCountryRunningAmericaNationsWaterUnitedCitiesPracticeWallMajorsEnvironmentalPopulationHearingBillionsBeing TrueRisingEngineersSooner Or LaterUnited NationsSkepticalConsumingCities In The WorldYemenSana Author:Thomas Friedman
“You can get an ice-cold Coke for around fifty cents in most developing countries, not just in the major population centers, but at the most remote and surprising places. The logistical challenges to resupplying all these outlets are enormous - and yet, the entire system works with incredible efficiency as is confirmed by the price of the product.” CountryChallengesProductsColdMajorsIncrediblesPopulationEnormousIceDevelopingFiftySurprisingCentsEfficiencyOutletsCokeDeveloping Countries Author:Thomas Pogge