63 Quotes About Evolutionary-biology

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.

What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that evolutionary theory shows that it is irrational to believe that God exists; he thinks that the theory has this consequence because he thinks that the Design Argument was the only remotely plausible argument for God’s existence and evolutionary theory destroyed that argument.

Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.

To your biology, survival of your genes is more important than accomplishment of your dreams.

The outgroup is rocks.

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

Men’s behavior is, to some extent, the result of female sexual preferences. If women didn’t want to mate with masculine men, these traits would have been removed from the gene pool long ago. “Toxic masculinity” is the result of women’s sexual preferences over thousands of generations. Contemporary feminists are punishing an entire generation of men for the mating preferences of their female ancestors.