Language is fossil poetry

All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an — Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermedia — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years.Would we know we were together? — Natasha Tsakos

There is a significant problem associated with burning large quantities of fossil fuels into the atmosphere. This pollut — Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease

There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contem — Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don' — Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

$An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand mil — Richard E. Leakey$

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite — Henry Fairfield Osborn

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossi — Jack Horner, How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever

Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unpreced — Naomi Klein

Individuals are told to reduce our "carbon footprint," and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would — Bruce E. Johansen

Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because — Russell Gold

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