104 Quotes About Species
- Author Matt Ridley
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Az, hogy ez a könyv kifejezetten egy faj helyzetével foglalkozik - az emberi fajéval -, semmit nem jelent e faj fontosságát tekintve. Persze az ember valóban különleges. A két füle között a bolygó legbonyolultabb biológiai gépezetét hordozza. A komlexitás azonban nem minden, és nem az evolúció célja. Ezen a bolygón minden faj egyedülálló. A páratlanság itt túlkínálatban lévő árucikk.
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- Author Danielle Tremblay
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La prochaine étape de l'évolution humaine consistera à nous libérer des chaînes de l'évolution.
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- Author Eden Phillpotts
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You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you have not kept faith with your own prophets and seers.
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- Author Carl Sagan
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Pliny suggested that the ostrich, then newly discovered, was the result of a cross between a giraffe and a gnat. (It would, I suppose, have to be a female giraffe and a male gnat.) In practice there must be many such crosses which have not beenattempted because of a certain understandable lack of motivation.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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We are a stupid species with smart phones.
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- Author Thomas Henry Huxley
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There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contemporary species, which have succeeded one another, by the slow and gradual substitution of species for species, in the vast interval of time which has elapsed between the deposition of the earliest fossiliferous strata and the present day.
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- Author Robert McCredie May
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To a good approximation, all species are insects.
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- Author Charles Lyell
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Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in succession at such times and in such places as to enable them to multiply and endure for an appointed period, and occupy an appointed space on the globe.
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- Author Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.
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