Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. – George Gaylord Simpson
Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process. – Harald zur Hausen
Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution. – Harald zur Hausen
The fact – not theory – that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. – George Gaylord Simpson
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. – Gary L. Francione
Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism. – Greg Graffin
I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions. And evolution, the evolutionary narrative, helped provide some of that for me. – Greg Graffin
As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It’s rare that evolution ‘invents’ the same process several times. – Gero Miesenbock
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory – from Western Europe to Central North America – that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species. – Hendrik Poinar
With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry. – Hedi Slimane
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea. – Harvey V. Fineberg
I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won’t be bloody like the Russian Revolution. – Howard Fast
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed – that is the meaning of evolution. – Graham Greene
Things change all the time, and they’ll probably never be the same again. It’s just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke. – Guy Clark
When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant. – George Smoot
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history – sparked by books on human evolution – then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork. – Greg Graffin
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. – Herbert Read
The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours. – Herman Cain
The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment. – Gever Tulley
The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment. – James Gleick
I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn’t have embraced that. I wouldn’t have been able to embrace me. – Jidenna
Governments have a unique opportunity to incentivise corporations so that they can accelerate their evolution to a more sustainable economy through more sustainable practices and products. – Jochen Zeitz
Since my worldview has expanded, I don’t consider myself working class anymore, and I’m attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution. – James McAvoy
