The first draft of the natural-selection idea got put away in the game closet under the stairs, where it remained with the tennis racquets and croquet mallets for more than a decade. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Because their role was to hunt and protect, males whose “adrenaline kicked in quite readily and who did not calm down so easily were more likely to survive and procreate”—while females awash in calming hormones, which spur milk production, won the natural-selection sweepstakes. ❋ LAURIE ABRAHAM (2010)
In fact I bet the two phenomena are related in cause (not asserting a correlation between gender identity and handedness, but saying the reasons for the "1 in 9" variation stem from the same internal natural-selection cause.) ❋ Unknown (2009)
These same spokespeople for scientific truth will fight like holy warriors to have natural-selection theory accepted into the curriculum, but then call; any attempt to make people more free as social Darwinism. ❋ Unknown (2007)
These same spokespeople for scientific truth will fight like holy warriors to have natural-selection theory accepted into the curriculum, but then call; any attempt to make people more free as “social Darwinism.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Privately, of course, the impact of the natural-selection work would have been incredibly pleasing, as much as the evangelical hostility to it would have been infuriating. ❋ Michael Neve (2009)
We gotta get down to basics, like where we evolved from and some real hard natural-selection rules Mother Nature wrote in her Standard Operating Procedures manual. ❋ Unknown (2008)
| Reply this would go great in a natural-selection montage. deathmonkey ❋ Unknown (2006)
It is possible there is some degree of biology here as well; we can't exclude the possibility that there is a natural-selection basis to a neurophysiology of social perception, as argued by the sociobiologists. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)
(Sometimes these dramatic changes are called “runaway selection,” and seem, in one sense, maladaptive in ordinary natural-selection terms.) ❋ Unknown (2006)
These hominids are a part of the "family bush" of walking apes, and their discovery has indeed taught us that human evolutionary development has been no neat passing of the natural-selection baton from one hominid to another, each succeeding species a little more upright and a little less hairy than the previous one. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Noam Chomsky had an interesting theory of evolutionary/natural-selection education that went something like: those who do as they're told become worldly successes, those who go against the grain become taxi drivers. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It has the further difficulty of skewing idea production toward any leisure class, which reduces total utility by reducing diversity in either the economic or natural-selection sense. ❋ Unknown (2003)
