63 Quotes About Evolutionary-biology

The current theory on the origin of life, abiogenesis, is like science wanted to go full ensō on itself but stopped short at reaching a final conclusion. This final conclusion being that the origin of self is self not wanting to be by itself and that the purpose of self is companionship otherwise known as love. Hence biodiversity.

Violence is in our DNA, so is Peace. It’s our will that determines which one comes to action.

Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from an evolutionary standpoint, it all leads to copulation and reproduction, but from the perspective of the individual who has recently fallen head over heels in love with someone, it is mostly about a sensation of warmth and delight, and rarely of sexual nature.

Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive because at this very early stage there is really no difference between primitive man and modern man.

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.

We must stand on the side of goodness, compassion and conscience, not to keep the processes in Nature functioning, but because if we don't, the environment that we would be giving our future generations, would be no different than the violent and lethal environment of the wild.

There is only oneself in relationship with itself.

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