Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean. — Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

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

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an indepe — Joseph Dalton Hooker, Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for — Stephen Jay Gould, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely a — Theodosius Dobzhansky

Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of — August Weismann

It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. T — William Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity

As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and n — William King Gregory

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gra — Niles Eldredge

More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical b — Niels Kaj Jerne

An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless o — R.W. van Bemmelen

This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a r — Asa Gray

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that — Richard E. Leakey

Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean.

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