It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.
We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.
No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.
There are no monotone "values" in biology.
In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.
The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Other species help children develop empathy.
When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.
Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.
if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.
We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
